Mo or MO may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
* Mo, a girl in the ''
Horrible Histories
''Horrible Histories'' is an educational entertainment franchise encompassing many media including books, magazines, audio books, stage shows, TV shows, and more.
In 2013, Lisa Edwards, UK publishing and commercial director of Scholastic Corpor ...
'' TV series
* Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel ''
Inkheart
''Inkheart'' (german: Tintenherz) is a 2003 young adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the ''Inkheart'' series, which was continued with ''Inkspell'' (2005) and ''Inkdeath'' (2007). The novel won the 2004 BookSense Boo ...
'' by Cornelia Funke
* Mo, in the webcomic ''
Jesus and Mo''
* Mo, the main character in the ''
Mo's Mischief Mo's Mischief, known in Chinese as ''Mischief Maker Ma Xiaotiao'' (淘气包马小跳), is a series of children's books written by Chinese author Yang Hongying, first published in 2003. The books revolve around the protagonist Mo Shen Ma, a studen ...
'' children's book series
* Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from ''
The Land Before Time
''The Land Before Time'' is an American animated film series and media franchise created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, distributed by Universal Pictures and centered on dinosaurs. The series began in 1988 with the eponymous '' The Land Bef ...
'' franchise
* MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series ''
Young Sentinels''
* Mo, a main character in ''
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' is an American musical comedy-drama television series created by Austin Winsberg that premiered on January 7, 2020, on NBC. The series stars Jane Levy as Zoey Clarke, a software developer who discovers she has t ...
''
* M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in film ''
WALL-E
''WALL-E'' (stylized with an interpunct as ''WALL·E'') is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, pro ...
''
* Mo the clown, a character played by
Roy Rene
Roy Rene (born Henry van der Sluys, 15 February 189122 November 1954) was an Australian comedian and vaudevillian. As the bawdy character Mo McCackie, Rene was one of the most well-known and successful Australian comedians of the 20th century.
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, 20th-century Australian stage comedian
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Mo Effanga
Maureen "Mo" Effanga is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama '' Holby City'', played by actress Chizzy Akudolu. She first appeared in the fourteenth series episode "Double Bubble", broadcast on 22 May 2012. Mo is a consultant cardi ...
, in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City''
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Mo Harris
Mo Harris (also known as "Big Mo") is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', who made her first appearance on 18 September 2000, played by Laila Morse. Mo is also played by Lorraine Stanley in the 2004 soap "bubble" '' ...
, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''
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Little Mo Mitchell
Maureen "Little Mo" Slater (previously Morgan and Mitchell) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', played by Kacey Ainsworth from 18 September 2000 to 26 May 2006.
Little Mo originally appeared with a turbulent marria ...
, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''
Films
* "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of ''
The Boxer's Omen'', a 1983 Hong Kong film
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''Mo'' (2010 film), a television movie about British politician Mo Mowlam
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''Mo'' (2016 film), a Tamil horror film
Music
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''M.O.'' (album), a 2013 album by American hip hop artist Nelly
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M.O
M.O are an English girl group consisting of members Annie Ashcroft and Chanal Benjilali, and previously Frankee Connolly until her departure in June 2017 and Nadine Samuels until her departure in 2020. The group was formed in 2012 by the membe ...
, an English pop trio
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MØ
Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen (; born 13 August 1988), known professionally as MØ (), is a Danish singer and songwriter. She signed a recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment in 2012, releasing her debut extended play, ''Bikini ...
, a Danish singer
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The MO, a Dutch pop band
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Mo Awards
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards) were an annual Australian entertainment industry award, that where established in 1975, to recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia. They were l ...
, annual awards for Australian live entertainment
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Yamaha MO The Yamaha MO6/MO8 is a music production synthesizer that comes in two sizes. The MO6 is the 61-key while the MO8 is the 88 weighted key version. The two versions use Yamaha's AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) tone generator also used in the Motif and t ...
, a music synthesizer
Other arts and entertainment
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Mo (Oz)
''The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People'' (copyright registered June 17, 1896) is the first full-length children's literature, children's fantasy (genre), fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 18 ...
, a fictional country in the book ''The Magical Monarch of Mo'' by L. Frank Baum
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''Mo'' (TV series), a 2022 comedy-drama
Businesses and organizations
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Altria Group
Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc.) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes and related products. It operates worldwide and is headquartered in ...
, formerly Philip Morris (New York Stock Exchange symbol MO)
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Calm Air
Calm Air International LP. is a full service airline, offering passenger, charter and freight services in northern Manitoba and the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut. It is owned by Exchange Income Corporation with its main base in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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(IATA airline designator MO), an airline based in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
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Milicja Obywatelska
Milicja Obywatelska (), in English known as the Citizens' Militia and commonly abbreviated to MO, was the national police organization of the Polish People's Republic. It was established on 7 October 1944 by the Polish Committee of National Libera ...
, a state police institution in Poland from 1944 to 1990
Language
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Mo (kana)
も, in hiragana, or モ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in three strokes and both represent .
モー is sometimes used as the onomatopoeia for cow
Cattle (''Bos taurus'') are l ...
, Romanisation of the Japanese kana も and モ
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Mo language (disambiguation) Mo may be:
*Deg language
Deg (also known as Aculo, Buru, Degha, Janela, Mmfo, or Mo) is a Gur (Gurunsi) language of Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of ...
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Moldavian language
Moldovan (Latin alphabet: ''limba moldovenească''; Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: лимба молдовеняскэ), also known historically as Moldavian, is one of the two local names of the Romanian language in Moldova. "Moldovan" is decla ...
(deprecated ISO 639-1 language code "mo")
People
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Mo (given name) Mo may be a nickname for Maureen, Maurice, Marek, Morris, or other given names. It is more rarely a given name in its own right.
People with the name include:
Arts and media
* Mohammed Amer, Palestinian-American stand-up comedian. He is best kn ...
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Emperor Mo (disambiguation) Emperor Mo (末帝; Mòdì; "The Last Emperor") is a posthumous name typically given to the last emperors of Chinese imperial dynasties, who were without other posthumous names. It may refer to:
* Zhu Youzhen (888–923, reigned 913–923), Emperor ...
, the posthumous name of various Chinese emperors
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Mo (Chinese surname)
The Chinese family name Mo ( 莫) is pronounced in Mandarin as "Mò" (4th tone), in Cantonese as "Mok6" (6th tone). The surname is often romanized as Mok where Cantonese speakers are prominent. According to a study of Mu Ying's Name record, the ...
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Mo (Korean surname)
Mo () is an uncommon Korean surname, It originated from either of two hanja ( or ), which are also used respectively to write the Chinese surnames Móu or Máo. The 2000 South Korean census found a total of 19,834 people and 6,110 households wit ...
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MØ
Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen (; born 13 August 1988), known professionally as MØ (), is a Danish singer and songwriter. She signed a recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment in 2012, releasing her debut extended play, ''Bikini ...
, Danish singer songwriter Karen Marie Ørsted (born 1988)
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Mr. Mo (rapper)
Jim Crow was a rap group from Atlanta made up of Polow da Don, Cutty Cartel, and Mr. Mo.
Their debut album peaked at No. 99 on ''Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Its first single, "That Drama (Baby's Mama)", featuring Too Short, peaked ...
, rapper, member of the group Jim Crow
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Mr. Mo (singer), member of the Danish band Kaliber
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Mo Twister
Mohan Gumatay (born October 19, 1977), known professionally as Mo Twister, is a Filipino American radio and television presenter. He is best known for his ''Good Times'' programs, which started as a radio show and later spun off to the televisi ...
, Filipino radio DJ and TV host Mohan Gumatay (born 1977)
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Mo Hayder
Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis. She went on to wr ...
, a pen name of British crime novelist Beatrice Clare Dunkel (1962–2021)
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Mo (wrestler)
Robert Lawrence Horne (born April 13, 1967) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler who is most famous for his time in the World Wrestling Federation from 1993 to 1996 under the ring name Mo (later Sir Mo), where he held the WWF World T ...
, ring name of Robert Horne (born 1964), professional wrestler
Places
Norway
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Mo i Rana
Mo i Rana () is a city, and the administrative centre of the municipality of Rana, in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the Helgeland region of Nordland, just south of the Arctic Circle. Some of the city's suburbs include Båsmoen and Yt ...
, a town in Rana municipality, Nordland county
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Mo, Agder, a village in Vegårshei municipality, Agder county
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Mo, Innlandet
Mo is a village in the municipality of Nord-Odal in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located at the northern end of the lake Storsjøen. The village of Knapper lies about to the north of Mo and the village of Sand lies about to the west of Mo. ...
, a village in Nord-Odal municipality, Innlandet county
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Mo, Møre og Romsdal
Mo is a village in Surnadal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and n ...
, a village in Surnadal municipality, Møre og Romsdal county
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Mo, Telemark
Mo is a former municipality in Telemark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The area is now part of Tokke Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Vistad which is located just we ...
, a former municipality in the old Telemark county
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Mo, Vestland, a village in Modalen municipality, Vestland county
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Mo Church (disambiguation), a list of several churches by this name in Norway
Elsewhere
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County Mayo, Ireland (vehicle plate code MO)
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Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...
(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MO)
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Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
, US (postal abbreviation)
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Moscow Oblast, Russia
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Province of Modena
The Province of Modena ( it, Provincia di Modena) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Modena.
It has an area of and a total population of about 701,000 (2015). There are 48 ''comuni'' (singular: ''co ...
, Italy (vehicle plate code MO)
Religion
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Mo (divination), a traditional Tibetan Buddhist technique of divination
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Mo (religion)
Mo or Moism () is the religion of most Zhuang people, the largest ethnic minority of China. It has a large presence in Guangxi. While it has a supreme god, the creator Bu Luotuo (布洛陀), numerous other deities are venerated as well. It has ...
, an animist religion of the Zhuang people of China
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Modern Orthodox Judaism, a movement that attempts to synthesize Orthodox Jewish values with the secular world
Science and technology
Computing
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.mo
:''.mo can also refer to the file extension of binary files that have been compiled from .po files using GNU gettext.''
.mo is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Macau, China.
The registry for this domain name is operated b ...
, country code top level domain of Macau
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Magneto-optical drive
A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. Both 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3.5 in) form factors exist. In 1983, just a year after the introduct ...
(magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, or simply Office, is the former name of a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketi ...
, an office software suite
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Mode of operation
In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity.
A block cipher by itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transform ...
, in encryption block ciphers
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Motivating operation
Motivating operation (MO) is a behavioristic concept introduced by Jack Michael in 1982. It is used to explain variations in the effects in the consequences of behavior. Most importantly, an MO affects how strongly the person is reinforced or pu ...
, a term describing the effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning
Other uses in science and technology
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Mo (grist mill) (磨), ancient Chinese stone implements used to grind grain into flour
* ''
Magnus and Oberhettinger'' aka "''Formulas and Theorems for the Functions of Mathematical Physics''", a mathematics book on special functions
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Manual override A manual override (MO) or manual analog override (MAO) is a mechanism where control is taken from an automated system and given to the user. For example, a manual override in photography refers to the ability for the human photographer to turn off ...
, a mechanism wherein control is taken from an automated system and given to the user
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Metalorganics
Metal-organic compounds (jargon: metalorganics, metallo-organics) are a class of chemical compounds that contain metals and organic ligands, which confer solubility in organic solvents or volatility. Compounds with these properties find applicatio ...
, also known as organometallics, in chemistry and materials science
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Molecular orbital
In chemistry, a molecular orbital is a mathematical function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule. This function can be used to calculate chemical and physical properties such as the probability of findin ...
, a mathematical function describing the wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule
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Molybdenum, symbol Mo, a chemical element
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Momentary open
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of ...
(MO), a group of electrical switches
Vehicles
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MO-class small guard ship
The MO (russian: Малый Охотник, ''Malyj Okhotnik''; en, Small Hunter, nickname ''Moshka'' (''Midge'') is a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy. Their primary function originally was anti-s ...
, a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy
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Morris Oxford MO
Morris Oxford Series MO is an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954. It was one of several models to carry the Morris Oxford name between 1913 and 1971.
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Saloon
After the Second World War the 13.5 ...
, an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954
Other uses
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Mo (Chinese zoology)
''Mo'' (貘) was the standard Chinese name for the giant panda from the 3rd century BCE to the 19th century CE, but in 1824, the French sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat mistakenly identified the ''mo'' as the recently discovered black-and-whi ...
, a name that semantically changed from "giant panda", to "a mythical chimera", to "tapir"
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Modus operandi'' (abbreviation m.o.), Latin meaning "mode of operation"; distinctive behavior patterns of an entity
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Month (abbreviation mo.), a unit of time of approximately 30 days
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Operation Mo
or the Port Moresby Operation was a Japanese plan to take control of the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II as well as other locations in the South Pacific. The goal was to isolate Australia and New Zealand from the Allied ...
, or the Port Moresby Operation, a Japanese plan to take the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II
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Medical officer (disambiguation)
* The
Australian English diminutive word for
moustache
A moustache (; en-US, mustache, ) is a strip of facial hair grown above the upper lip. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history.
Etymology
The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian ''mustaccio'' ...
.
See also
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Meaux (disambiguation)
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mho, in physics, the reciprocal of the "ohm" unit of resistance
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Mø (disambiguation)
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Mobile (disambiguation)
Mobile may refer to:
Places
* Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city
* Mobile County, Alabama
* Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S.
* Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels
* Mobile ...
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Moe (disambiguation)
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Moe's (disambiguation)
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Mohs (disambiguation)
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Mow (disambiguation)
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