MOS

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Mos or MOS may refer to:

• Mos (Spain), municipality in Galicia, Spain
• The singular form for Mores

MOS is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:

• Manual of Style, standards for design and writing of documents
• Museum of Science, a type of museum devoted primarily to science
• MOS (film), term in film production for a scene "recorded without sound."
• Ministry of Supply, defunct UK government ministry
• MOS Burger, Japanese hamburger restaurant chain (Mountain, Ocean, Sun)
• Margin on Services, Australian accounting for life insurance companies

MOS may also refer to:

In culture:

• Ministry of Sound, nightclub in London, England
• Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom, psychedelic trance (form of electronic music) project from Germany
• Mos, first name of rapper/actor Mos Def
• Mos, prefix for a city on planet Tatooine in the fictional Star Wars universe, in particular Mos Eisley, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy."

In genetics:

• c-Mos, proto-oncogene, Oocyte maturation factor mos

A geographic location:

• Ma On Shan, town in Hong Kong

A term describing a career:

• military occupational specialty, American military career categorization used in the Army and Marine Corps
• Member of the Service, a sworn police officer, particularly with the NYPD

In technology:

• Metal Oxide Semiconductor, technology behind MOSFET transistors
• MOS (operating system), Soviet clone of Unix
• Acorn MOS, operating system for the Acorn BBC Micro and BBC Master machines
• Maintenance OS
• Mean Opinion Score, numerical measure of the perceived quality of a telephone connection
• Media Object Server, XML protocol for television system automation
• MOS Technology, defunct semiconductor company
• Multi-Object Spectrometer, astronomical instrument for measuring the spectrum of several targets simultaneously
• Microsoft Office Specialist, certification