Mod

**Mod**, **MOD** or **mods** may refer to:

## Places

- Modesto City–County Airport, Stanislaus County, California, US

### Music

- Mods (band), a Norwegian rock band
- M.O.D. (Method of Destruction), a band from New York City
- The Mods (band), a punk rock band from Toronto
- Circuit bending, modification of an existing circuit such as a guitar pedal, digital keyboard, or drum machine

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

- _Mod_ (movie), 2011 movie
- _The Mods_ (movie), 2014 movie
- Mod (video games), changes  to a video game, usually by persons not associated with the main developers, which may affect visuals, gameplay, and other aspects
- Mòd, a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture
- Media-on-demand, a new generation of video on demand
- _MuchOnDemand_, a music-television show that airs on MuchMusic in Canada

## Brands and enterprises

- Mod Club Theatre, a nightclub in Toronto, Canada
- MOD Pizza, a fast casual pizza restaurant chain based in the United States

## Organizations

- MoD (UK), the UK Ministry of Defence
- Masters of Deception, a US-based hacker group
- Ministry of Defence, a part of the government responsible for defence
- Ministry of Development (Brunei), a Bruneian government ministry

### Computing and Internet

- Mod, a module for Apache HTTP Server
- Case modding, the modification of a computer chassis
- Forum moderator, a person who watches over an Internet message board
- Module file, a family of computer music formats which play patterns of embedded sound samples
    - MOD (file format), the first module file format
- Source code file (for an implementation module) in the programming language Modula-2

### Mathematics

- Mod n cryptanalysis, a partitioning attack applicable to block and stream ciphers
- Modulation, the remainder of division of one number by another
    - Modular arithmetic, a system of arithmetic for integers where numbers return to zero after a certain value
    - Modular exponentiation, a type of exponentiation performed over a modulus
    - Remainder, the "left over" part in division of integers which cannot be expressed with an integer quotient

### Other uses in science and technology

- Mod, a type of electronic cigarette
- MOD and TOD, a tapeless video format by JVC
- Modchip, a device designed to modify the behavior of an electronic system
- Model organism database, a database that houses and disseminates organism-specific biological knowledge
- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, a medical condition

## Other uses

- MOD (Marehan, Ogaden, Darawiish)
- Mod (subculture), 1960s British youth subculture
    - Mod revival, a rebirth of the mod subculture in the late 1970s
- MOD, a basic unit of time used in the MODAPTS predetermined motion time system
- Body modification, the deliberate altering of the human body for non-medical reasons
- Honour Moderations, a first set of examinations at Oxford University
- Manufactured-on-demand, such as Warner Archive Collection
- Maximum operating depth, in scuba diving, the depth at which a gas mix exceeds safe limits
- Mod Cup, a trophy in the sport of shinty first competed for in 1969
- Modular scheduling, a system of school timetabling
- Multicultural organization development