MCT may refer to:

Astronomy

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Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope 250px, A 150mm aperture Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope The Maksutov (also called a "Mak") is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design that takes advantage of all the sur ...

* Morning Civil Twilight, from when the center of the Sun is less than 6° below the horizon to sunrise.

Biochemistry

Medium-chain triglyceride A medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) is a triglyceride with two or three fatty acids having an aliphatic tail of 6–12 carbon atoms, i.e. a medium-chain fatty acid (MCFA). Rich food sources for commercial extraction of MCTs include palm kernel oil ...

s, a class of fat with specific dietary and technical properties (also MCT oil) *

Monocarboxylate transporter The monocarboxylate transporters, or MCTs, are a family of proton-linked plasma membrane transporters that carry molecules having one carboxylate group (monocarboxylates), such as lactate, pyruvate, and ketones across biological membranes. Acetat ...

s, a family of proton-linked plasma membrane transporters that carry molecules having one carboxylate group (monocarboxylates), such as lactate and pyruvate, across biological membranes. * Methyl halide transferase, an enzyme

Companies

Marine Current Turbines Marine Current Turbines Ltd (MCT), was a United Kingdom-based company that developed tidal stream generators, most notably the 1.2 MW SeaGen turbine. The company was bought by the German automation company, Siemens in 2012, who later sold ...

* McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, the news service formerly known as Knight Ridder Tribune

Computing

* Microsoft Certified Trainer * Mobile Computer Terminal *Multi Core Timer in

Exynos (system on chip) The Samsung Exynos (stylized as SΛMSUNG Exynos), formerly Hummingbird (), is a series of Arm-based system-on-chips developed by Samsung Electronics' System LSI division and manufactured by Samsung Foundry. It is a continuation of Samsung's ea ...

processors

Engineering

* Maximum continuous thrust, an aviation abbreviation for a

jet engine A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet (fluid), jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition may include Rocket engine, rocket, Pump-jet, water jet, and ...

rating *

Mercury cadmium telluride Hg1−''x''Cd''x''Te or mercury cadmium telluride (also cadmium mercury telluride, MCT, MerCad Telluride, MerCadTel, MerCaT or CMT) is a chemical compound of cadmium telluride (CdTe) and mercury telluride (HgTe) with a tunable bandgap spanning th ...

(HgCdTe), a semiconductor with a particularly narrow bandgap used in mid- and far-infrared detectors (e.g. night vision) *

MOS-controlled thyristor An MOS-controlled thyristor (MCT) is a voltage-controlled fully controllable thyristor, controlled by MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors). It was invented by V.A.K. Temple in 1984, and was principally similar to the ea ...

, a type of thyristor (a solid-state semiconductor device) *

Multi Cable Transits A firestop or fire-stopping is a form of passive fire protection that is used to seal around Penetration (firestop), openings and between Joint (building), joints in a Fire-resistance rating, fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly. Firestop ...

, A fire-stop is a fire protection system made of various components used to seal openings and joints in fire-resistance rated wall and/or floor assemblies. For penetrating cables, these can also be called as Multi Cable Transits (MCTs).

Medicine

Mast cell tumor A mastocytoma or mast cell tumor is a type of round-cell tumor consisting of mast cells. It is found in humans and many animal species; it also can refer to an accumulation or nodule of mast cells that resembles a tumor. Mast cells originate f ...

Methacholine challenge test A bronchial challenge test is a medical test used to assist in the diagnosis of asthma. The patient breathes in nebulizer, nebulized methacholine or histamine. Thus the test may also be called a methacholine challenge test or histamine challenge ...

, a medical test to assess the degree of a

bronchial hyperresponsiveness Bronchial hyperresponsiveness (or other combinations with airway or hyperreactivity, BH used as a general abbreviation) is a state characterised by easily triggered bronchospasm (contraction of the bronchioles or small airways). Bronchial hyperres ...

(e.g. in

asthma Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and easily triggered bronchospasms. Symptoms include episodes of wh ...

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Munich Chronotype Questionnaire The Munich Chronotype Questionnaire (MCTQ) was created in 1976 by Till Roenneberg and Martha Merrow at Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich. The MCTQ samples sleep and circadian rhythm data from more than 25,000 participants. Questions abo ...

(MCTQ), a standardized test for evaluating patient sleep/wake patterns *

Ketogenic diet The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to b ...

(MCT diet) * Micro Computed Tomography

Psychology

Metacognitive therapy Metacognitive therapy (MCT) is a psychotherapy focused on modifying metacognitive beliefs that perpetuate states of worry, rumination and attention fixation. It was created by Adrian Wells based on an information processing model by Wells and G ...

Transportation

Mars Colonial Transporter Before settling on the 2018 Starship design, SpaceX successively presented a number of reusable super-heavy lift vehicle proposals. These preliminary spacecraft designs were known under various names ('' Mars Colonial Transporter'', ''Interplanetar ...

, a proposed interplanetary transportation system by SpaceX *

Madison County Transit Madison County Transit (MCT) is a public transit operator that serves Madison County, Illinois, a suburban county northeast of St. Louis. Its services include bus, microtransit, paratransit, and a " rails to trails" network. In , the system had ...

, a public transportation service in Madison County, Illinois *

Muscat International Airport Muscat International Airport , formerly Seeb International Airport, is the main international airport in Oman. It is located in Seeb, Oman, Seeb, from the old city and capital Muscat within the Muscat metropolitan area. The airport serves as th ...

, the airport serving Muscat, Oman (IATA code is MCT)

Other

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is the centralized governmental authority for six Ojibwe bands in Minnesota. The tribe was created on June 18, 1934; the organization and its governmental powers are divided between the tribe, and the individual bands ...

Mengisa language Leti, or Mangisa, is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the Eton language, though a number of them continue to use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their ...

(ISO 639 code: mct) *Marine Combat Training, a training course at the

United States Marine Corps School of Infantry The School of Infantry (SOI) is the second stage of initial military training for enlisted United States Marines after recruit training. The ITB (Infantry Training Battalion) now called IMC (Infantry Marine Course) went from a 59-day course to 14 w ...

Monotone convergence theorem In the mathematical field of real analysis, the monotone convergence theorem is any of a number of related theorems proving the good convergence behaviour of monotonic sequences, i.e. sequences that are non- increasing, or non- decreasing. In its ...

, in mathematics *

Motivation crowding theory Motivation crowding theory is the theory from psychology and microeconomics suggesting that providing extrinsic incentives for certain kinds of behavior—such as promising monetary rewards for accomplishing some task—can sometimes undermine i ...

, in economics *Member of the

Association of Corporate Treasurers The Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) is the international professional body specialising in the profession of corporate treasury. It was founded in 1979 and was awarded a Royal Charter on 1 January 2013. It is both an examining body, pro ...

, a professional organization *

Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant The Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant (多倫多華裔小姐競選), also known as MCTP, and formerly known as the Greater Toronto Chinese Pageant prior to 1999, is an annual beauty pageant organized by Fairchild TV that selects Toronto's representat ...

, the annual Toronto beauty pageant for Chinese Canadians * Manganese cyclopentadienyl tricarbonyl, an antiknock additive for gasoline * Mickelson Clarified Translation, in

Modern English Bible translations Modern English Bible translations consists of English Bible translations developed and published throughout the late modern period () to the present (). A multitude of recent attempts have been made to translate the Bible into English. Most mo ...

Multichannel television A multichannel television service, also known as simply a television provider, is a type of service provider who distributes television programming to its customers for a subscription fee. Subscription television providers distribute television ...

*Mutable collagenous tissue