Mo
Appearance
Mo or MO may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional elements
- Mo (Oz), a fictional country in the book The Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum
- Mo, a girl in the Horrible Histories TV series
- Mo, also known as Mortimer, a fictional character in the novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- Mo, a fictional character in the webcomic Jesus and Mo
- Mo, the main character in the fictional Mo's Mischief series
- Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from The Land Before Time franchise
- MO (Maintenance Operator), a fictional robot character in the Filmation series Young Sentinels
- M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a fictional robot character in film WALL-E
- Mo the clown, a character played by Roy Rene, 20th-century Australian stage comedian
- Mo Harris, a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Little Mo Mitchell, a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Films
- "Mo" (魔 demon) The Boxer's Omen, a 1983 Hong Kong film, original title
- Mo (2010 film), a 2010 television movie about British politician Mo Mowlam
- Mo (2016 film), a 2016 Tamil horror film
Music
- M.O. (album), a 2013 album by American hip hop artist Nelly
- M.O, an English pop trio
- Mo Awards, annual awards for Australian live entertainment
- The MO, a Dutch pop band
Businesses and organizations
- Altria Group, formerly Philip Morris (New York Stock Exchange symbol MO)
- Calm Air (IATA airline designator MO), an airline based in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
- Milicja Obywatelska, a state police institution in Poland from 1944–1990
Language
- Mo (kana), Romanisation of the Japanese kana も and モ
- Mo language (disambiguation)
- Moldavian language (deprecated ISO 639-1 language code "mo")
People
- Mo (given name)
- Mo (Chinese surname)
- Mo (Korean surname)
- Mo (wrestler), one half of the tag team Men on a Mission
- MØ (born 1988), Danish singer songwriter (real name Karen Marie Ørsted)
- Emperor Mo (disambiguation), one of several Chinese emperors
- Mo Jamil, British singer who won the sixth series of The Voice UK
- Mr. Mo (rapper), rapper, member of the group Jim Crow
- Mr. Mo (singer), member of the Danish band Kaliber
- Mariano Rivera, a US baseball player nicknamed Mo
Places
Norway
- Mo i Rana, a town in Rana municipality, Nordland county
- Mo, Aust-Agder, a village in Vegårshei municipality, Agder county
- Mo, Møre og Romsdal, a village in Surnadal municipality, Møre og Romsdal county
- Mo, Norway, a village in Nord-Odal municipality, Innlandet county
- Mo, Telemark, a former municipality in the old Telemark county
- Mo, Vestland, a village in Modalen municipality, Vestland county
- Mo Church (disambiguation), a list of several churches by this name in Norway
Elsewhere
- County Mayo, Ireland (vehicle plate code MO)
- Macau (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MO)
- Missouri, US (postal abbreviation)
- Moscow Oblast, Russia
- Province of Modena, Italy (vehicle plate code MO)
Religion
- Mo (divination), a traditional Tibetan Buddhist technique of divination
- Mo (religion), an animist religion of the Zhuang people of China
- Modern Orthodox Judaism, a movement that attempts to synthesize Orthodox Jewish values with the secular world
Science and technology
Computing
- .mo, country code top level domain of Macau
- Magneto-optical drive (magneto-optical storage), a data storage medium
- Microsoft Office, an office software suite
- Mode of operation, in encryption block ciphers
- Motivating operation, a term describing the effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning
Other uses in science and technology
- Mo (grist mill) (磨), ancient Chinese stone implements used to grind grain into flour
- Manual override, a mechanism wherein control is taken from an automated system and given to the user
- Metalorganics, also known as organometallics, in chemistry and materials science
- Molecular orbital, a mathematical function describing the wave-like behavior of an electron in a molecule
- Molybdenum (symbol Mo), a chemical element
- Momentary open (MO), a group of electrical switches
- Yamaha MO, a music synthesizer
Vehicles
- MO-class small guard ship, a class of small ships produced before and during World War II for the Soviet Navy
- Morris Oxford MO, an automobile produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1954
Other uses
- Mo (Chinese zoology), a name that semantically changed from "giant panda", to "a mythical chimera", to "tapir"
- Modus operandi (abbreviation m.o.), Latin meaning "mode of operation"; distinctive behavior patterns of an entity
- Month (abbreviation mo.), a unit of time of approximately 30 days
- Operation Mo, or the Port Moresby Operation, a Japanese plan to take the Australian Territory of New Guinea during World War II
See also
- Meaux (disambiguation)
- mho, in physics, the reciprocal of the "ohm" unit of resistance
- Mø (disambiguation)
- Mobile (disambiguation)
- Moe (disambiguation)
- Moe's (disambiguation)
- Mohs (disambiguation)
- Mow (disambiguation)