Geo

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GEO or Geo may refer to any of the following:

In computational & scientific use:

• GEO (magazine), a popular scientific magazine
• GEO 600, a detector for gravitational radiation
• Global Environment Outlook, an environmental assessment produced by the United Nations
• Geo (microformat), a microformat for marking up WSG84 geographical coordinates in (X)HTML
• Gene Expression Omnibus, a National Center for Biotechnology Information database for gene expression

In commercial use:

• Geo (marketing), a discipline within marketing analysis
• Geo TV, a leading television channel in Pakistan
• Geo (automobile), a defunct brand of entry-level cars produced by General Motors

People:

• Geo. is sometimes an abbreviation of the name George.
• Geo, the composer for the J-pop group Sweetbox
• Geo (artist), the Korean manhwa artist.
• Geo Bogza, a Romanian poet and essayist.
• Geo Stelar is the main protagonist in Mega Man Star Force.

As a group:

• Grupo Especial de Operaciones, a division of the Spanish police
• General Education Officer, the basic rank of teachers of the Ministry of Education in Singapore
• Group on Earth Observations, an intergovernmental organization

As a place:

• GEO, the IATA code for Cheddi Jagan International Airport
• Estadio Casas GEO, stadium in Mexicali, Mexico
• Geo or gio, is a creek (inlet) or gulley in the Orkney and Shetland Islands

As a prefix: geo- is taken from the Greek word γη or γαια meaning "earth", usually in the sense of "ground or land". Geo- is thus a prefix for many words dealing in some way with the earth, including:

• Geography, the study of the Earth and its features
  • Geology, the study of the Earth's structure
  • Geopolitics, the analysis of history, geography and social science with respect to international politics
  • Geodesy, also known as geodetics, the study of the measurement and representation of the earth

• Geothermal (geology), heat sources from within the Earth
  • Geo-exchange, a heating and cooling system

• Geometry, the study of spatial relationships
  • Geocentric, a model of the universe that places the earth at its centre
    • Geostationary orbit, a circular orbit directly above the earth's equator
    • Geosynchronous orbit, an orbit that has the same period as the Earth's sidereal rotation

• Geocaching, an outdoor activity that involves using navigational techniques to finds geocaches

• Geocoding or GeoTagging, encoding coordinates in to features, images, web ages and other data records
  • Geolocation, the science of determining the real-world location of a website or website visitor