Tao (disambiguation)
Tao is a metaphysical concept found in Taoism, Confucianism, and more generally in ancient Chinese philosophy
Tao may also refer to:
- Tao Te Ching, a classical Chinese text
- Taoism, a philosophical school and folk religion based on the Tao Te Ching
- Tao people, a Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, native to outlying Orchid Island
- Troleandomycin, by trade name Tao
- Tao Framework, a library giving .NET and mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL
- Tao Group, a software company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Motorola Droid, an Android-based smartphone by Motorola, previously publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855
Acronyms
- Qingdao Liuting International Airport (IATA airport code)
- Thromboangiitis obliterans, medical term for a type of vasculitis (aka Buerger's disease)
- TAO (software), (The ACE ORB), Open Source software
- TAO (collective), a radical tech organization based in Canada
- Tamke-Allan Observatory, in Tennessee, United States
- Ten Acre Observatory, in Oklahoma, United States
- Together as One (festival), a large rave held New Years Eve in Los Angeles
- Track At Once, an optical disc recording mode
- Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, a European project in the FP6 framework
Geography
- Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand
- Tao (historical region), part of the Georgian Tao-Klarjeti principalities
- Tao, Mali, a commune in the Cercle of Koutiala, Mali
- Tao River, a tributary of the Yellow River in Gansu Province, China
People
- Tao (surname) (陶), a Chinese surname
- David Tao, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- Senakhtenre Tao I, father of Seqenenre Tao
- Seqenenre Tao II, Egyptian ruler of Thebes who started the process of ousting the Hyksos kings from Egypt
- Terence Tao, an Australian mathematician, 2006 Fields Medalist
- Wang Tao, refer to this disambiguation page for multiple persons with this name
- Wu Tao, a Chinese discus thrower
- Tao Lin, a famous author
- Tao Qian, influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
- Tao Yang (Teoma), Professor at UCSB and Chief Scientist/SVP at Ask Jeeves/Teoma
- Tao Yang (Wuxi), Chief Scientist of Yang's Scientific Research Institute and CEO of Wuxi Tianyang Ruijie Technology Co. Ltd
In popular culture
Characters
- Tao (comics), the fictional character from the comic book WildCATS
- Tao Jun, the fictional female character from the manga and anime Shaman King
- Tao Pai Pai, the fictional character in Dragon Ball media
- Tao Ren, the fictional male character from the manga and anime Shaman King
Games
Music