Science and Medicine
- Mannitol salt agar, an agar used in microbiology
- Measurement systems analysis, the analysis of the process of obtaining measurements
- Methanesulfonic acid, an organic sulfonic acid
- Middle Stone Age, a period of African prehistory
- Multiple sequence alignment, an alignment of three or more biological sequences
- Multiple system atrophy, a degenerative neurological disorder
- Multiscale approximation or multiresolution analysis
- Morphosyntactic alignment (linguistics)
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