Amos facts for kids

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 Flying V
• Amos Records, an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California, in 1968

People and religious figures

• Amos (name), a given name, nickname and surname
• Amos, a Jewish prophet from the 8th century BCE, the author of the Book of Amos.

Technology

• AMOS or Advanced Mortar System, a 120 mm automatic twin barreled, breech loaded mortar turret
• AMOS (programming language), a dialect of BASIC on the Amiga computer
• Alpha Micro Operating System, a proprietary operating system used in Alpha Microsystems minicomputers
• IBM SPSS Amos, a statistical software package by IBM used in structural equation modeling, companion software in the SPSS family
• Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing observatory, an Air Force Research Laboratory operating on Maui, Hawaii
• Amos (satellite), series of Israeli IAI-built civilian communications satellites
  • AMOS (satellite bus), a satellite bus that is the foundation of all but one of the Amos satellites

Places

United States

• Amos, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Amos, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Amos, Nevada, an unincorporated community
• Amos Lake (Minnesota)
• Amos Lake (Connecticut), New London County, Connecticut

Elsewhere

• Amos, Quebec, Canada, a town
• Amos (ancient city), an ancient town close to Marmaris, Turkey
• Amos Lake (Antarctica), a lake on Signy Island

Other uses

• Book of Amos, a book in the Bible
• Amos, the NATO reporting name of the R-33 air-to-air missile
• Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
• Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans, a fraternal appendant body to the Odd Fellows

See also

In Spanish: Amós para niños

• Famous Amos, a cookie company founded by Wally Amos