TAO

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Tao or TAO can refer to:

• Tao, a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion
  • Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text
  • Taoism, a philosophical school and folk religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching
• Tao (Atari) (Frank Seemann), an Atari ST demoscene musician
• TAO (Collective), a radical tech organization based in Canada
• Tao Group, a software company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
• Tao (historical region), part of the Georgian Tao-Klarjeti principalities
• Tao people, a Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island
• TAO (software) (The ACE ORB), a freely available, open-source, and standards-compliant real-time C++ implementation of CORBA
• Tao (software), a library giving .NET and mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL
• TAO (song), Do As Infinity's final single, released 2005
• Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand

TAO is used as an acronym for :

• Tactics Arena Online, a video game
• Tamke-Allen Observatory, in Tennessee, United States
• Track At Once, an optical disc recording mode
• Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, an European project in the FP6 framework
• Ten Acre Observatory, in Oklahoma, United States
• Triacetyloleandomycin, a chemical
• Together As One, an annual rave held in Los Angeles on New Years

People having Tao as part of their name:

• Tao II the Brave (Seqenenra Tao), Egyptian ruler of Thebes who began ejection of the Hyksos from Ancient Egypt
• Tao (comics), fictional character from the comic book WildCATS
• Tao Cheng
• Tao Feng
• Tao Huang
• Tao Peng
• Tao Qian, influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
• Tao Ren, Tao Jun, and Tao Yúan - fictional characters of Shaman King
• Terence Tao, an Australian mathematician, 2006 Fields Medalist
• Wang Tao, a Qing dynasty translator, reformer, political columnist, newspaper publisher, and fiction writer
• Tao Wu
• Tao Yang, several persons

[edit] See also

• DAO