Moa (disambiguation)

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

Organizations and companies

• Mine Owners' Association, US
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Moscow Airlines (ICAO airline designator: MOA)

Places

Buildings

• Mall of Africa, Midrand, South Africa
• Mall of America, Minnesota, US
• Mall of Arabia (Dubai), a planned shopping mall, United Arab Emirates
• Mall of Arabia (Jeddah), Saudi Arabia
• Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Canada
• Mall of Amritsar, former name of Nexus Amritsar, Amritsar, India
• SM Mall of Asia, in Manila, Philippines
  • SM Mall of Asia Arena, an indoor arena in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines

Islands

• Moa (island), one of the Leti Islands, Indonesia
• Moa Island (Queensland), Australia

Rivers

• Moa River, west Africa
• Môa River, Brazil
• Moa River (Cuba), see Nuevo Mundo Dam, Cuba

Towns and villages

• Moa, Cuba
• Moa, Mkinga, Tanzania
• Moa, Niger

Science and technology

• Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster, a novel propulsion system with several terrestrial applications
• Mars Organic Analyzer, part of a NASA mission
• Massive Online Analysis, software for data stream mining with concept drift
• Mechanism of action, the means by which a drug exerts its biological effects
• Method of administration, in medicine
• Methoxyacrylate, an inhibitor of the cytochrome bc₁ complex
• Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, a group of astrophysicists searching for exoplanets
• Migraine without aura, in medicine
• Minute of arc, a unit of angular measurement
  • Minute of angle, a way of determining firearm accuracy
• Mode of action, a field which investigates how a toxin affects an organism in vivo
• Psilotum nudum, 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

People

• Moa (name), including people with the given name or surname
• Mohammed Abdellaoue (born 1985), Norwegian football player nicknamed "Moa"

Other uses

• Manner of articulation, in linguistics
• Jaynagarer Moa or Moa, a Bengali sweet
• Making of America (MoA), a digital library project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University
• Memorandum of agreement or memorandum of understanding, an agreement between two or more parties
• Memorandum of association, a document required to incorporate a company in many Commonwealth countries
• Military operations area, an area where US military activity takes place

See also

• All pages with titles containing Moa (disambiguation)
• Moai (disambiguation)
• Mua (disambiguation)
• Mower