MOS

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Mos may refer to:

• mos, the singular form of mōrēs
• Mos, Spain, a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of Pontevedra
• Mos, a traditional dish of the Nivkh people
• Mos language, an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language of Malaya and Thailand
• Mos Def, American hip hop artist and actor
• Wash, in Hungarian.

Government and military

• Master of the Sword, the title for the head of physical education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• Member of Service, term used to describe 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

• Ma On Shan (town), a town in the New Territories of Hong Kong
• Museum of Science (Boston) (MoS), a Boston, Massachusetts landmark, located in Science Park, a plot of land spanning the Charles River, USA

Technology

• Mathematical Optimization Society
• Metal–oxide–semiconductor, used to form a gate in some field effect transistors
• Model output statistics, a weather-forecasting technique
• MOS (filmmaking), term for a scene that is "motor only sync" or "motor only shot"
• MOS Technology, a defunct semiconductor company
• Mobile operating system, operating systems for mobile devices

Computing

• 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"

Other uses

• Mannan oligosaccharide-based nutritional supplements
• Margin on Services, 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
• MOS (brand), American brand of organizational tools.
• MOS Burger, a fast-food restaurant chain that originated in Japan
• "Man on the street" segments in broadcasting (Vox populi)

See also

• Man of Steel
• MDOS (disambiguation)
• PC-MOS/386