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

• Moa, the fandom name for the K-Pop group Tomorrow X Together

See also

• Moai (disambiguation)

• Mua (disambiguation)

• Mower