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Mast or MAST may refer to:
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Engineering
- Mast (sailing), a pole that holds a sail on sailing ships and boats, or antennas on modern warships
- Flagmast, on which a flag is flown
- Guyed mast, a type of tall structure supported by guy-wires
- Mooring mast, a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship
- Radio masts and towers, poles or lattice towers that carry antennas/aerials
- The primary support for a helicopter rotor
- The main vertical structure of a forklift truck
- The electrical conduit attached to the side of a house or building that channels electricity to the customer's electricity meter
- Multi-axis shaker table, an automotive test system
- Model for assessment of telemedicine, used to assess the quality of long-distance medical treatment
- Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree, a structure used in cryptocurrency 'smart contracts'
Biology
- Mast (botany), the edible seed and fruit produced by trees or shrubs that wildlife species will consume
- Mast Arboretum, at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas
- Mast cell, involved in the allergy response
- MAST, marine stramenopiles (also referred to as Heterokonts)
- Mast., in botanical naming, the standard author abbreviation for Maxwell T. Masters
- Two microtubule-associated serine/threonine-protein kinase enzymes:
- MAST1, an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MAST1 gene
- MAST2, an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MAST2 gene
Science
- Multi-Application Survivable Tether, an experimental space mission
- Multimission Archive at STScI, a component of the National Space Science Data Center
- Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak, a nuclear fusion experiment in the UK
Society and culture
- Mast (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language triliteral
- Mast (naval), in naval tradition, a non-judicial punishment disciplinary hearing
- Mast (Sufism), in India, Pakistan, and Iran, a type of religious intoxication
- Mast (film), a 1999 Indian movie by Ram Gopal Verma
- Mast General Store, an American regional store chain
Places
- Mast-e Olya, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Mast-e Sofla, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
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