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MIMIC
The VDU associated with most medium and large lighting desks has a detailed mimic of the level of all dimmers and other associated information.

MINIM
Range of 300W lanterns produced by Rank Strand (now Strand Lighting) in the UK.

MINUETTE
Range of 500W/650W lanterns produced by CCT in the UK.

MIRROR BALL

• A lighting effect popular in discos, ballrooms etc. A large plastic ball covered with small mirror pieces. When a spotlight (usually a PINSPOT) is focused onto the ball, specks of light are thrown around the room. Usually motorized to rotate.
• A common lighting effect created by shining a narrow beam light source onto a rotating ball with a faceted mirror surface.

MIXER
A device used to combine and adjust sound levels of multiple microphones and or instruments.

ML
Short for MOVING LIGHTS.

MOGUL BASE
A type of lamp base.

MOL
Abbreviation for Maximum Overall Length. This measurement (in mm) is the length between the ceramic lamp bases at each end of a double ended (linear) lamp, such as that used in floods and some discharge lamps.