Moron or Morón may refer to: *

Moron (psychology) Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability.Rafter, Nicole Hahn (1998). ''Creating Born Criminals.'' University of Illinois Press, The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. B ...

, disused term for a person with a mental age between 7 and 10

People

Edgar Moron Edgar Moron (born 28 August 1941) is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia for twenty years, from 1990 to 2010, reaching the position of 1st Vice President in 2005 ...

(born 1941), German politician *

Morón (surname) Morón is a surname which may refer to: * Guillermo Morón (1926–2021), Venezuelan writer and historian * Jaime Morón (1950–2005), Colombian footballer * Daniel Morón (born 1957), Argentine former football goalkeeper who played in Chile * Ál ...

, various people so named

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Moron (ancient city) Moron was an ancient city mentioned by Strabo. Several hypotheses exist related to its location, but a location near Santarém is strongly considered. Strabo mentions that Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus made camp on an island near the city Stra ...

, mentioned by the Greek geographer Strabo *

Morón, Buenos Aires Morón () is a city in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, capital of the Morón ''partido'', located in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, at . Located 20 km (13 mi) west of Downtown Buenos Aires, Morón is easily rea ...

, a city in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina *

Roman Catholic Diocese of Morón The Diocese of Morón is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Argentina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Its cathed ...

, Argentina *

Morón Partido Morón is a '' partido'' ( second level administrative division) of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Located in the Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires ( es, Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area ...

, a district in Buenos Aires Province *

Morón, Cuba Morón is a city and a municipality in Ciego de Ávila Province in central Cuba. It is one of ten municipalities in the province, and is the second in importance and the oldest. Morón is the closest city to the tourist resorts on Cayo Coco and ...

, a city in Cuba *

Moron, Grand'Anse Moron ( ht, Mowon) is a commune in the Jérémie Arrondissement, in the Grand'Anse department of Haiti. It has 24,713 inhabitants (in 2003). Villages located within the commune include: Moron, Gros Morne, La Roche, Layalace, Lenaire, Plik an ...

, a commune of Haiti *

Mörön Mörön ( mn, Мөрөн;, lit=river), also spelled Murun, is the administrative center of Khövsgöl Aimag (province) in northern Mongolia. Before 1933, Khatgal had been the aimag capital. It has 12,286 families and a population of 46,918, and ...

, a town in Mongolia *

Mörön, Khentii Mörön ( mn, Мөрөн) is a Sums of Mongolia, sum (district) of Khentii Province in eastern Mongolia. The Chandgana Tal coal mine is 25 km east of Mörön sum center. In 2010, its population was 1,326.

, a district of Khentii Province in eastern Mongolia *

Morong, Bataan Morong, officially the Municipality of Morong ( tl, Bayan ng Morong), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,394 people. The municipality is home to the Subic ...

, a municipality in the Philippines formerly known as Moron * Morón, Venezuela, a town in northern Venezuela * Moron, later renamed

Taft, California Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Taft is located west-southwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of . The popula ...

, a city * Moron (mountain), in the Jura Mountains *

Morón de la Frontera Morón de la Frontera () is a Spanish town in Seville province, Andalusia, South-East of Seville. Situated in the south of the province, it is the center of the region that bears the same name and is the head of one of the 85 judicial courts of ...

, also known as Morón, a municipality in Spain. *

Morón Air Base Morón Air Base is located at in southern Spain, approximately southeast of the city of Seville. The base gets its name from the nearby town of Morón de la Frontera while is located inside Arahal municipality territory. Currently the base ...

, in Morón de la Frontera, Spain *

Moron Lake Moron Lake is a lake in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. ...

, a lake in Alaska *

Lac de Moron __NOTOC__ Lac de Moron is a reservoir formed by damming the river Doubs on the border of France and Switzerland. It can be reached from Les Planchettes or Les Brenets in the Canton of Neuchâtel ( Switzerland) and from Le Barboux in the Doubs d ...

, a lake on the border between France and Switzerland

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Moron (bacteriophage) A moron, in the context of bacteriophage genetics, is an extra gene in a prophage genome without a function in the phage's lysogenic cycle. These genes may code for products beneficial to the phage's bacterial host, as with the example of gp15 of p ...

, an extra gene in prophage genomes that do not have a phage function in the

lysogenic cycle Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two cycles of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle being the other). Lysogeny is characterized by integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circu ...

* ''Moron'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae *

Moron (Book of Mormon) Moron () is the name of a location and a king in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. They are both connected with the Jaredite people. Jaredite king According to the Book of Mormon, Moron was a Jaredite king who lived during the 1st mil ...

, a name and a location in the Book of Mormon *

Moron (food) In Filipino cuisine, moron (also spelled morón or muron, the stress is placed on the last syllable) is a rice cake similar to suman. It is a native delicacy of the Waray people in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, particularly in t ...

, a type of rice cake native in the Eastern Visayas, Philippines * "Moron" (Sum 41 song) * "Moron" (KMFDM song)

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