mo
noun
[ məʊ ]
• a short period of time.
• "hang on a mo!"
Origin:
late 19th century: abbreviation of moment.
mo.
abbreviation
• month.
-mo
suffix
• forming nouns denoting a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded.
• "twelvemo"
Origin:
from the final syllable of Latin ordinal numbers such as duodecimo (masculine ablative singular).
Mo
symbol
• the chemical element molybdenum.
MO
noun
• the way a particular person tends to do things.
• "his MO isn't prescribing the solution but sparking more questions"
Origin:
1950s: abbreviation of modus operandi.
MO
abbreviation
• (of a disk or disk drive) magneto-optical.
• Medical Officer.
• "that looks nasty—better go and see the MO"
• Missouri (in official postal use).
• money order.
molybdenum
noun
• the chemical element of atomic number 42, a brittle silver-grey metal of the transition series, used in some alloy steels.
Origin:
early 19th century: modern Latin, earlier molybdena (originally denoting a salt of lead), from Greek molubdaina ‘plummet’, from molubdos ‘lead’.
