Mo or MO may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
* Mo, a girl in the ''
Horrible Histories'' TV series
* Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel ''
Inkheart'' by Cornelia Funke
* Mo, in the webcomic ''
Jesus and Mo
''Jesus and Mo'' is a British webcomic created by an artist using the pseudonym Mohammed Jones. Launched in November 2005, the comic is published on its eponymous website once a week now.
Set-up
The comic is simply drawn, typically using a sing ...
''
* 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 Befor ...
'' franchise
* MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series ''
Young Sentinels
''Space Sentinels'' (originally titled ''Young Sentinels'' and renamed midway through its only season) is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Filmation which debuted on the American NBC network on September 10, 1977 and ran for thirte ...
''
* Mo, a main character in ''
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist''
* M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in film ''
WALL-E''
* 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 cardiot ...
, 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" ''Pat ...
, 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 marriag ...
, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''
Films
* "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of ''
The Boxer's Omen
''The Boxer's Omen'' (魔, ''Mó'', ''Magic'') is a 1983 Hong Kong horror film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It is sometimes described as a sequel to ''Bewitched'' (1980), also directed by Chih-Hung.
Plot
Ch ...
'', 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 member ...
, 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, 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, formerly Philip Morris (New York Stock Exchange symbol MO)
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Calm Air (IATA airline designator MO), an airline based in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
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Milicja Obywatelska, 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 la ...
, Romanisation of the Japanese kana も and モ
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Mo language (disambiguation)
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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 declar ...
(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 know ...
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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)
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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 ...
*
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)
Kaliber is a Danish rap-band from Copenhagen made up of rappers DB King and Livid rapper and vocalists Face It and Mr. Mo.
They had a charting hit with "Det Dødt Nu" in 2013. They are well known for their song " Hardhitter" featuring Danish ...
, 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 televisio ...
, Filipino radio DJ and TV host Mohan Gumatay (born 1977)
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Mo Hayder, 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, 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, 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
Mo is the administrative centre of Modalen municipality, located in northern Vestland county, Norway. The village lies at the mouth of the river Moelva, where it empties into the Romarheimsfjorden (also known as the Mofjorden). The small village ...
, a village in Modalen municipality, Vestland county
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Mo Church (disambiguation) Mo Church may refer to several different churches in Norway:
*Mo Church (Innlandet), a church in Nord-Odal municipality in Innlandet county, Norway
* Mo Church (Møre og Romsdal), a church in Surnadal municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway ...
, a list of several churches by this name in Norway
Elsewhere
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County Mayo
County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...
, 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 pop ...
(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MO)
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Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
, US (postal abbreviation)
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Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...
, Russia
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Province of Modena, Italy (vehicle plate code MO)
Religion
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Mo (divination)
Mo is a form of divination that is part of the culture and religion of Tibet. The Tibetan people consult ''Mo'' when making important decisions about health, work or travel. Mo employs dice and there are books written by various '' lamas'' on i ...
, 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
Modern Orthodox Judaism (also Modern Orthodox or Modern Orthodoxy) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world.
Modern Orthodoxy draws on sever ...
, 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 (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 marketin ...
, an office software suite
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Mode of operation, in encryption block ciphers
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Motivating operation, 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
Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Magnus known as Wilhelm Magnus (February 5, 1907 in Berlin, Germany – October 15, 1990 in New Rochelle, New York) was a German-American mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebr ...
'' 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 t ...
, a mechanism wherein control is taken from an automated system and given to the user
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Metalorganics, 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 finding ...
, a mathematical function describing the wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule
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Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42 which is located in period 5 and group 6. The name is from Neo-Latin ''molybdaenum'', which is based on Ancient Greek ', meaning lead, since its ores were confused with lea ...
, symbol Mo, a chemical element
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Momentary open (MO), a group of electrical switches
Vehicles
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MO-class small guard ship, a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy
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Morris Oxford MO, 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"
* ''
Modus operandi
A ''modus operandi'' (often shortened to M.O.) is someone's habits of working, particularly in the context of business or criminal investigations, but also more generally. It is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode (or manner) of op ...
'' (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)
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the ...
* The
Australian English diminutive word for
moustache.
See also
*
Meaux (disambiguation) Meaux may refer to:
*Meaux, a town in the Seine-et-Marne department, France
** Arrondissement of Meaux
** Canton of Meaux-Nord
** Canton of Meaux-Sud
**CS Meaux, football club
** CS Meaux (WBC), a wheelchair basketball club
*Meaux-la-Montagne, a com ...
*
mho
The siemens (symbol: S) is the unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance, and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI). Conductance, susceptance, and admittance are the reciprocals of resistance, reactance, and ...
, 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 (b ...
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Moe (disambiguation)
Moe, MOE, MoE or m.o.e. may refer to:
In arts and entertainment Characters
* Moe Szyslak, from the animated television show ''The Simpsons''
* Moe, leader of The Three Stooges, played by Moe Howard
* Moe Higurashi, supporting character in ''Yasha ...
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Moe's (disambiguation) Moe's or Moes may refer to:
* Moes (surname), includes a list of people with the name Moes
* Mões, civil parish in the municipality of Castro Daire, Portugal
*Moe's Southwest Grill, an American fast casual restaurant franchise
*Moe's Tavern
Sp ...
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Mohs (disambiguation) Mohs or MoHS can refer to:
*Friedrich Mohs, a 19th-century German geologist who developed:
**Mohs scale of mineral hardness, a scale used in materials science to describe hardness
*Frederic E. Mohs, an American doctor who developed:
**Mohs surgery, ...
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Mow (disambiguation)
Mow may refer to:
* Mow (surname)
* Mow, Gaya, Bihar, India
* A hayloft
* English onomatopaeia for the calling sound a cat makes
See also
* MOW (disambiguation)
* Mowing
* Mo (disambiguation)
Mo or MO may refer to:
Arts and entertainment F ...
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