MOS
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MOS or Mos may refer to:
Technology
[edit]- MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), also known as the MOS transistor
- Mathematical Optimization Society
- Model output statistics, a weather-forecasting technique
- MOS (filmmaking), a filmmaking jargon acronym
- Mobile operating system, operating systems for mobile devices
Computing
[edit]- Acorn MOS, an operating system used in the Acorn BBC computer range
- Media Object Server, a protocol used in newsroom computer systems
- Mean opinion score, a measure of the perceived quality of a signal
- MOS (operating system), a Soviet Unix clone
- My Oracle Support, a support site for the users of Oracle Corporation products, known until October 2010 as "MetaLink"
- macOS, an operating system for Macs
Government and military
[edit]- Master of the Sword, the title for the head of physical education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
- Member of Service, any emergency responder (police officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician) that needs emergency help, usually over two-way radio
- Military occupation specialty code, used by the U.S. military to identify a specific job
- Ministry of Supply, former British government ministry that co-ordinated military supplies
Places
[edit]- Ma On Shan (town), a town in the New Territories of Hong Kong
- Ma On Shan station, MTR station code
- Mos, Spain, a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra
- Museum of Science (Boston) (MoS), a Boston, Massachusetts landmark, located in Science Park, a plot of land spanning the Charles River, USA
Companies and organizations
[edit]- MOS (brand), American brand of organizational tools
- MOS Technology, a defunct semiconductor company
- Mos, a startup tech company founded by Amira Yahyaoui
- MOS Burger, a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan
- The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS), American fertilizer and mining company
Other uses
[edit]- Mos, an uncommon singular form of mores, widely observed social norms (from Latin mos and mōrēs)
- Mos, a traditional dish of the Nivkh people
- Mos language, an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language of Malaya and Thailand
- Mannan oligosaccharide-based nutritional supplements
- Manual of style, also known a style guide or stylebook; a guide for writing and sometimes also for layout and typography
- Margin on services, a financial reporting method for Australian life insurance companies
- Moment of symmetry, in music, same as well formed generated collection
- MOS (gene), gene for a human protein expressed in testis during sperm formation
- MOS, German vehicle registration plate district code for Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
- "Man on the street" (vox populi) segments in broadcasting
- Mossi language ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
- Morvan Syndrome (MoS) though usually referred to as MVS
- MOS, minimum operating segment of a transportation system
- Mos, nickname of Thai singer Patiparn Patavekarn, also referred to as Mos Patiparn
- MoS, Motorways of the Sea, is a concept in the transport policy of the European Union
See also
[edit]- Mo's Restaurants, American restaurant chain in Oregon
- Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)
- Mos Def, American hip-hop artist and actor
- Mos Eisley, a fictional city which first appeared in Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope
- PC-MOS/386
- Man of Steel (disambiguation)
- MDOS (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with MOS
- All pages with titles containing MOS