IO

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Io, IO, I/O, i/o, or i.o. may refer to:

Abbreviation

  • iO Theater (ImprovOlympic), a theater in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to improvisational comedy
  • I.O. West, a Los Angeles theater associated with the Chicago iO
  • Image orthicon tube, a TV camera used between 1946 and 1968
  • Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean
  • Indirect object, the object that is the recipient of an action (by a verb)
  • i.o., in illo ordine, Latin phrase meaning "respectively" ("in that order")
  • Industrial organization, the field of economics that studies the strategic behavior of firms, the structure of markets and their interactions
  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the field of psychology that studies work, academic, and other organizational issues
  • Input/output, the collection of interfaces that different functional units of an information processing system use to communicate with each other
  • Integrated operations, a term used in the petroleum industry describing new work processes and ways of working that have been facilitated by modern information and communication technologies
  • International Operations, a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics
  • International Organization, a peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of international affairs
  • Intraosseous infusion, the medical process of introducing medication directly into the bone marrow
  • iO Digital Cable Service, a service offered by Cablevision
  • IO Interactive, a Danish computer game developer
  • Interest-only, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) or mortgage-backed security
  • Insertion order, a business document specifying the inventory goal of an advertising campaign
  • Investigating Officer, a police officer in the United Kingdom who heads an investigation, usually from CID but of any rank

Astronomy

Biology

  • Automeris io, a moth species in North America
  • The Hawaiian Hawk's local name
  • Inachis io, the European Peacock butterfly
  • Io (genus), a genus of freshwater snail in the family Pleuroceridae

Chemistry

  • The claimed element ionium (symbol Io), before it was realised this was actually thorium-230.

Codes

  • The two-letter ISO 639-1 language code for Ido, a constructed language
  • Indonesian Airlines' IATA airline designator
  • .io, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the British Indian Ocean Territory, or, more specifically, the British Indian Ocean Territory's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and DAFIF 0413 / DIA 65-18 / FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code

Computing

History

Literature and mythology

  • Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea, who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that allowed him to breathe underwater.
  • Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow
  • Io, an unfinished acte de ballet (opera) by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Io Matua Kore, in some Māori traditions the supreme god

Modern fiction

  • Blind Io, the current king of the gods in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels
  • Io (Babylon 5), a space station in the science fiction television show Babylon 5
  • Io (Dungeons & Dragons), the chief deity worshipped by dragons in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  • Scylla Io, one of Poseidon's Marine Generals in the Saint Seiya series

People

  • Io Shirai, (born 1990) Japanese professional wrestler

Popular culture

Technology

See also

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