Moa are extinct giant flightless birds native to New Zealand. Moa or MOA may also refer to:

Arts and media

Metal Open Air Metal Open Air (also known simply as MOA) was an unsuccessful 2012 Heavy metal music, heavy metal Music festival, festival. It took place between 20–22 April, at the Parque Independência, 25 km southeast from downtown São Luís, Maranhão, ...

, a Brazilian heavy metal festival * MOA Museum of Art in Japan * The Moas, New Zealand film awards

People

* Moa (name), including people with the given name or surname * Mohammed Abdellaoue (born 1985), Norwegian football player nicknamed "Moa"

Places

Buildings

Mall of Africa Mall of Africa is a shopping mall located in Waterfall City, Midrand, Gauteng. It is the third largest single-phase shopping mall to be built in Africa, The mall has 130,000 square meters of total retail area. Mall of Africa has two main leve ...

in Midrand, South Africa * Mall of Alnor in

Cotabato City Cotabato City, officially the City of Cotabato (Maguindanao language, Maguindanaon: ''Kuta nu Kutawatu'', Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ; Cebuano language, Cebuano: ''Dakbayan sa Cotabato''; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, inde ...

, Philippines * Mall of America, in Minnesota, United States * Mall of Arabia (Dubai) *

Mall of Arabia (Jeddah) The Mall of Arabia is a shopping mall located in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The mall is located on the eastern side of the Medina Road and south of Makkah Road, near the King Abdulaziz International Airport. The mall has an area of 26 ...

in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia *

Museum of Anthropology at UBC The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada displays world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations in Canada, First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. As well ...

in Canada * Nexus Amritsar in Amritsar, India, formerly known as Mall of Amritsar *

SM Mall of Asia SM Mall of Asia (also abbreviated as SM MoA, or simply Mall of Asia or MoA; ), is a large shopping mall in the Philippines, located at Bay City, Metro Manila, Bay City, Pasay, Metro Manila within the SM Central Business Park, a reclaimed area w ...

, in Manila, Philippines ** SM Mall of Asia Arena, an indoor arena in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines

Islands

* Moa (Indonesia), one of the Leti Islands * Moa Island (Queensland), in Australia

Rivers

* Moa River, in west Africa * Môa River, Brazil * Moa River (Cuba), see Nuevo Mundo Dam

Towns and villages

* Moa, Cuba * Moa, Mkinga, Tanzania * Moa, Niger

Science and mathematics

* Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster, a novel propulsion system with several terrestrial applications * Mars Organic Analyzer *

Manner of articulation articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators ( speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound. One parameter of manner is ''stricture,'' that is, h ...

(linguistics) * Massive Online Analysis, a free open-source software specific for data stream mining with concept drift *

Mechanism of action In pharmacology, the term mechanism of action (MOA) refers to the specific biochemical Drug interaction, interaction through which a Medication, drug substance produces its pharmacological effect. A mechanism of action usually includes mention o ...

, the means by which a drug exerts its biological effects * Method of administration, in medicine * Methoxyacrylate, an inhibitor of the cytochrome ''bc''₁ complex * Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, a group of astrophysicists searching for exoplanets *

Migraine Migraine (, ) is a complex neurological disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headache, most often unilateral and generally associated with nausea, and light and sound sensitivity. Other characterizing symptoms may includ ...

without aura *

Minute of arc A minute of arc, arcminute (abbreviated as arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol , is a unit of angular measurement equal to of a degree. Since one degree is of a turn, or complete rotation, one arcminute is of a tu ...

, a term relating to angular measurement; known as Minute of Angle in firearms *

Mode of action In pharmacology and biochemistry, mode of action (MoA) describes a functional or anatomical change, resulting from the exposure of a living organism to a substance. In comparison, a mechanism of action (MOA) describes such changes at the molecul ...

, a field which investigates how a toxin affects an organism ''in vivo'' * ''

Psilotum nudum ''Psilotum nudum'', the whisk fern, is a species of fern in the order Psilotaceae, Psilotales. Like the other species in this order, it lacks roots. ''Psilotum nudum'', means "bare naked" in Latin, because it lacks (or seems to lack) most of the ...

'', a plant species also called whisk fern, known as Moa in the Hawaiian Islands

Ships of the New Zealand Navy

* ''Moa''-class patrol boat, built between 1978 and 1985 * HMNZS ''Moa'' (P3553), a patrol boat * HMNZS ''Moa'' (T233), a minesweeper

Other uses

* Jaynagarer Moa, or simply ''Moa'', a Bengali sweet *

Making of America Making of America (MoA) is a collaborative effort by Cornell University and the University of Michigan to digitize and make available a collection of primary sources relating to the development of U.S. infrastructure. The Making of America collectio ...

(MoA), a digital library project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University *

Minute of angle A minute of arc, arcminute (abbreviated as arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol , is a unit of angular measurement equal to of a degree. Since one degree is of a turn, or complete rotation, one arcminute is of a tu ...

, a way of determining firearm accuracy * Memorandum of agreement or memorandum of understanding, an agreement between two or more parties *

Memorandum of association The memorandum of association of a company is an important corporate document in certain jurisdictions. It is often simply referred to as the memorandum. In the UK, it has to be filed with the Registrar of Companies during the process of incorp ...

, a document required to incorporate a company in many Commonwealth countries * Military operations area, an area where United States military activity takes place, used on Sectional Aeronautical Charts * Mine Owners' Association * Ministry of Agriculture * MOA, ICAO airline designator for Moscow Airlines