Amos or AMOS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray
* Amos (band), an American Christian rock band
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''Amos'' (film), a 1985 American made-for-television drama film
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Amos (guitar)
Amos is a 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar. The guitar was one of only 98 Flying Vs manufactured by Gibson Brands between 1958 and 1959. In 1958 it was shipped to an Indiana music store. In 1975 the guitar resurfaced in the collection of a Tarzana, C ...
, a 1958 Gibson Flying V
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Amos Records
Amos Records was an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California by Jimmy Bowen, in 1968. The label was located on 6565 Sunset Boulevard, and had an additional office branch in New York City. With Bowen producing most of Amos Rec ...
, an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California, in 1968
People and religious figures
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Amos (name)
Amos () is both a given name and a surname made popular by the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Amos (prophet), prophet. It may refer to:
Given name
People
* Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), American educator, father of American novelist Louisa ...
, a given name, nickname and surname
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Amos (prophet)
Amos (; – ''ʿĀmōs'') was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. According to the Bible, Amos was the older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah and was active c. 760–755 BC during the rule o ...
, a Jewish prophet from the 8th century BCE, and the author of the Book of Amos
Technology
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AMOS
Amos or AMOS may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray
* Amos (band), an American Christian rock band
* ''Amos'' (film), a 1985 American made-for-television drama film
* Amos (guitar), a 1958 Gibson Fl ...
, or Advanced Mortar System, a 120 mm automatic twin-barreled, breech-loaded mortar turret
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AMOS (programming language)
AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language for the Amiga computer. Following on from the successful STOS BASIC for the Atari ST, AMOS BASIC was written for the Amiga by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos and published ...
, a dialect of BASIC on the Amiga computer
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Alpha Micro Operating System
Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter ''aleph'' , whose name comes from the West Semitic word for ' ox' ...
, a proprietary operating system used in
Alpha Microsystems
Alpha Microsystems, Inc., often shortened to Alpha Micro, was an American computer company founded in 1977 in Costa Mesa, California, by John French, Dick Wilcox and Bob Hitchcock. During the dot-com bubble, dot-com boom, the company changed its ...
minicomputers
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IBM SPSS Amos
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company ...
, a statistical software package by
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
used in
structural equation modeling
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a diverse set of methods used by scientists for both observational and experimental research. SEM is used mostly in the social and behavioral science fields, but it is also used in epidemiology, business, ...
, companion software in the
SPSS
SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was acquired by IBM in 2009. Versi ...
family
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Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory
The Maui Space Surveillance Complex (MSSC) is a U.S. Space Force operating location for the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Haleakala Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, with a twofold mission (). Fir ...
, an Air Force Research Laboratory operating on Maui, Hawaii
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Amos (satellite), series of Israeli IAI-built civilian communications satellites
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AMOS (satellite bus)
The AMOS (Hebrew: ), an acronym for Affordable Modular Optimized Satellite, is a family of light weight satellite bus for geostationary orbit communications satellite designed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) of Israel.
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, a satellite bus that is the foundation of all but one of the Amos satellites
Places
United States
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Amos, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
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Amos, Missouri
Amos is an unincorporated community in northwest Vernon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
The community is approximately 1.5 miles east of the Missouri-Kansas border, approximately three miles north-northwest of Stotesbury, and about 16 mi ...
, an unincorporated community
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Amos, Nevada
Amos was an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
History
A post office called Amos was in operation between 1889 and 1926. According to the Federal Writers' Project
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was ...
, an unincorporated community
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Amos Lake (Minnesota)
Amos Lake is a lake in Douglas County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the nort ...
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Amos Lake (Connecticut) Amos Lake may refer to:
* Amos Lake (Antarctica), a lake on Signy Island
* Amos Lake (Minnesota), a lake in Douglas County
* Amos Lake (Connecticut), a lake in New London County
{{geodis ...
, New London County, Connecticut
Elsewhere
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Amos, Quebec
Amos is a town (Quebec), town in northwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Harricana River. It is the seat of Abitibi Regional County Municipality.
Amos is the main town on the Harricana River, and the smallest of the three primary towns — after Rou ...
, Canada, a town
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Amos (ancient city)
Amos (Ancient Greek: Ἄμος, possibly from ἄμμος "sandy") was a settlement (''deme, dēmē'') of ancient Caria, located near the modern town of Turunç, Turkey.
History
Amos was located in the Rhodian Peraia in Caria on the Mediterranean ...
, an ancient town close to Marmaris, Turkey
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Amos Lake (Antarctica)
Signy Island is a small subantarctic island in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the Norwegian whaler Petter Sørlle (1884–1933) after his wife, Signy Therese.
The island is about long and wide and rises to above s ...
, a lake on Signy Island
Other uses
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Book of Amos
The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Hebrew Bible, Tanakh and the second in the Greek Septuagint. The Book of Amos has nine chapters. According to the Bible, Amos (prophet), Amos was ...
, a book in the Bible
* Amos, the NATO reporting name of the
R-33 air-to-air missile
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Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) is an independent learned society that supports and fosters interest in Meteorology, Oceanography and other related sciences. AMOS was founded in April 1987 as a successor to the Aust ...
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Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity
Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early ...
, a fraternal appendant body to the Odd Fellows
See also
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Famous Amos
Famous Amos is a brand of cookies founded in Los Angeles in 1975 by Wally Amos.
History
Wallace "Wally" Amos was born in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, on July 1, 1936. In 1948, he moved to New York City to live with his aunt where they ...
, a cookie company founded by
Wally Amos
Wallace Amos Jr. (July 1, 1936 – August 13, 2024) was an American television personality, businessman, and author. He was the founder of the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie, the Cookie Kahuna, and Aunt Della's Cookies gourmet cookie brands ...
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