On
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On is a switching state, contrasted to off; see off.
In addition, "on" or "ON" may mean:
- A song by the artist Aphex Twin; see On (EP).
- An album by Gary Glitter; see ON (album).
- For use in cricket, see leg side.
- "On" means "being" in ancient Greek. The latter concept plays an important role in the history of western philosophy since presocratic times. Ontology is a branch of philosophy that deals with the concept of being (On).
- On is also one of the ways to pronounce the Kanji (Chinese ideogram) for "sound" in Japanese.
- On is a musical project by Ken Andrews of Failure.
- On is a transliteration of the Egyptian name of the city of Heliopolis.
- Ontario (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
- on Digital, a failed British television service.
- Overground Network, a railway scheme in South London.
- ON is also the postnomial abbreviation used by members of the Jamaican Order of the Nation.
- On, a person mentioned in Numbers 16:1.
- Air Nauru (IATA airline designator)
- ON can stand for spontaneous osteonecrosis, resulting from a loss of blood supply to bone tissue.
- In "Potiphar priest of On" in Genesis in the Bible.
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ON is a Dutch Narrow Casting Company
