MI - Science and Technology

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  • Malleable Iron, a type of cast iron
  • Melt Flow Index, a characteristic property of a thermoplastic polymer as a means of quality control
  • Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable, a type of electrical cable
  • Moment of inertia, a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation rate
  • Mutual information, a measure of mutual dependence of two random variables in probability and information theory
  • Mebi, the IEEE prefix that represents 220
  • Mile, a measure of distance in the Imperial system, approximately equal to 1.609 km
  • MI, or Mi, magnitude-intensity relation, or magnitude intensity scale, used to assess the magnitude of historic earthquakes that occurred prior to the development of seismographs in the late 19th century, see Mercalli intensity scale

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