Moa Moa are extinct giant flightless birds native to New Zealand. Moa or MOA may also refer to: Arts and media * Metal Open Air, a Brazilian heavy metal festival * MOA Museum of Art in Japan * The Moas, New Zealand film awards People * 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 The is a private museum in the city of Atami, Japan. The museum is the third museum established to house the art collection of Mokichi Okada, the founder of the , and was founded in 1982. The first museum, the Hakone Museum of Art ( ja), was ...

in Japan *

The Moas New Zealand film and television awards have gone by many different names and have been organised by different industry groups. As of 2017, New Zealand has relaunched a standalone New Zealand Television Awards after a five-year hiatus. The film awa ...

, New Zealand film awards

People

Moa (name) Moa is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Anika Moa (born 1980), New Zealand singer-songwriter * Iyasus Mo'a (1214–1294), saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church * Pío Moa (born 1945), Spanish ...

, including people with the given name or surname *

Mohammed Abdellaoue Mohammed "Moa" Abdellaoue (; born 23 October 1985) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He started his career with Skeid and Vålerenga before moving to Germany where he played for Hannover 96 and VfB Stuttgar ...

(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 Mall of America (MoA) is a large shopping mall located in Bloomington, Minnesota. Located within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the mall lies southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, north ...

, 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 Nexus Amritsar (previously known as Mall of Amritsar and Alpha One Mall) is a shopping mall situated on GT Road, Amritsar, Punjab, India developed by Alpha G Group and is the third largest mall in the Indian State of Punjab Punjab (; ; ...

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 The SM Mall of Asia Arena, also known as the Mall of Asia Arena or the MoA Arena, is an indoor arena within the SM Mall of Asia complex, in Bay City, Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. It has a seating capacity of 15,000 for sporting events and ...

, an indoor arena in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines

Islands

Moa (Indonesia) Moa is an Indonesian island, at the center of the Leti Islands, and one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. Moa is located in southwest Maluku province. The main town is Tiakur on the west coast of the island, which serv ...

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

Rivers

Moa River The Moa River (Makona River) is a river in West Africa. It arises in the highlands of Guinea and flows southwest, forming parts of the Guinea–Liberia and the Guinea – Sierra Leone borders. It flows into the Southern Province of Sierra Leone ...

, in west Africa *

Môa River The Môa River () is a river of Acre state in western Brazil. It is a left-bank tributary of the Juruá River The Juruá River ( ; ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River. The Juruá emerges from highlands in e ...

, Brazil * Moa River (Cuba), see Nuevo Mundo Dam

Towns and villages

Moa, Cuba Moa is a municipality and an industrial city in the Holguín Province of Cuba. Its name is believed to mean "water here". History Moa, one of the youngest cities in Cuba, was founded in 1939. Geography Located in the easternmost area of its prov ...

Moa, Mkinga Moa (''Kata ya Moa, '' in Swahili) is an administrative ward of the Mkinga District in the Tanga Region of Tanzania. The north-eastern ward is formed by the Pemba Channel. The wards of Manza and Boma are to the south. The Sigaya and Parungu ...

, Tanzania *

Moa, Niger Moa, Niger is a village and rural commune in Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger bord ...

Science and mathematics

Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster The magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster (MOA; often named as plasma engine by the media) is a versatile electrothermodynamic system, which is able to accelerate nearly every electrically charged gaseous medium ( plasma application) to extr ...

, a novel propulsion system with several terrestrial applications *

Mars Organic Analyzer Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover '' Perseverance'', the now-retired small robotic helicopter '' Ingenuity'', and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rock ...

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 Massive Online Analysis (MOA) is a free open-source software project specific for data stream mining with concept drift. It is written in Java and developed at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Description MOA is an open-source framework s ...

, 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 pharmacology and toxicology, a route of administration is the way by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body. Routes of administration are generally classified by the location at which the substance is applied. ...

, in medicine * Methoxyacrylate, an inhibitor of the cytochrome ''bc''₁ complex *

Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) is a collaborative project between researchers in New Zealand and Japan, led by Professor Yasushi Muraki of Nagoya University. They use gravitational microlensing, microlensing to observe dark mat ...

, 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 Jaynagarer Moa () is a seasonal Bengali sweetmeat delicacy prepared from date palm jaggery and Kanakchur khoi. This variety of Moa originated in Jaynagar Majilpur of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is now ...

, 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 An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...

* MOA, ICAO airline designator for

Moscow Airlines Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (), known as Moscow Airlines () during 2010-2011, was an airline based in Moscow, Russia, that operated domestic and international passenger flights out of Vnukovo International Airport from 1993 to 2011. History Joint ...