MOR
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mor"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛm əʊ ˈɑː(ɹ)/
Noun
MOR (plural MORs)
- A mid-ocean ridge: a submarine volcanic mountain range.
Proper noun
MOR
Phrase
MOR
- (radio) Initialism of middle of the road.
- 2003, Christopher H. Sterling, Encyclopedia of Radio, page 1575:
- But MOR as a programming powerhouse began to lose strength as the radio industry evolved during those decades.
- 2020 May 25, Owen Gleiberman, “‘The High Note’: Film Review”, in Claudia Eller, editor, Variety[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Variety Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2020:
- At a hip grocery store, Maggie meets David (Kelvin Harrison Jr., from “Waves”), a handsome singer-songwriter with a rockin’ MOR vibe, and the two have a “High Fidelity” music-geek convo that dances on the edge of cringey-ness.