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AO may stand for:Adults Only, contents rated not suitable for people under the age of 18 by Entertainment Software Rating BoardAdaptive Optics, a method of observing in astronomyAuxiliary oiler, US Navy hull classification symbolAnarchy Online, a science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing gameAngola, 2-letter ISO and obsolete NATO country code Aosta Valley (Vallée d'Aoste, Valle d'Aosta), abbreviation for the region and province of ItalyArbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen  Association for the Study of Internal FixationArctic oscillationAtlas OrthogonalAtomic oxygenAustralian Airlines (now defunct), IATA code Officer of the Order of Australia, postnominal lettersThe nickname of a street basketball player named Aaron Owens.The nickname of Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin.AMSAT-OSCAR, artificial satellite naming convention. Among others, especially in the written English of native speakers of Dutch (in which the equivalent expression onder andere(n) is often abbreviated "o.a.")Ambient occlusionThe Alice Ottley School, in WorcesterAO Springfield School, in WorcesterThe American Optical Company of Southbridge, Massachusetts
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.ao is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Angola. It is administered by the college of engineering of the University of Agostinho Neto.The registry Web site, as of 2006, has not been modified since 2002, and consists of a single page in Portuguese. One of the few links on the page is to a document in Microsoft Word format, in English, which gives registration rules for the domain which may not be up-to-date; they state that registration by entities outside Angola is to be done only in the .it.ao subdomain (but a Google search shows no active sites in that subdomain), and also say that registrations are only taken at the third level (when a Google search shows some sites exist at second-level .ao names).
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Altötting is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) Austria and the Bavarian districts of Traunstein, Mühldorf and Rottal-Inn.
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[Polynesian] "Light", as the opposite of Po, "Night". The Polynesian god of the clouds, the first ancestor of the Maori and is sometimes called 'The Father of the Ancestors'. In the Pacific, clouds are not associated with darkness, for they often look like columns of light. He is of vital importance to navigators because they could discern the presence of land from the shape of the clouds on the horizon, and also used them to predict rain. He is also called Ao Toto, "Blood-Red Dawn".

Iao (Gnostic) A three-letter mystery-name, parallel in one sense with the Sanskrit pranava, and reminiscent of triune deities represented by a triplicity of sounds. It occurs in many variations: Io, the Grecian moon goddess; Iaho, Jevo, Jehovah, and other Hebraic forms; Iaso, the possible origin of the name Jesus; Iacchos, the Bacchus of the Mysteries. It is at once threefold, fourfold, and sevenfold in meaning.
Iao Hebdomad (sevenfold) was one of the septenary mystery-gods of the Gnostics, given by Origen as the regent of the moon. The Gnostics had a superior hebdomad, an inferior or celestial one, and the terrestrial one. Iao was regarded as the chief of the superior seven heavens above the earth and is identical with the chief of the lunar pitris (SD 1:448).
Again, Iao Hebdomad is the septenary Iao or the collective seven cosmic rectors, each one representing a heaven, and therefore identifying this Iao Hebdomad at once with the seven mystery-planets of the ancients. Iao, sometimes connected with Yaho, from another standpoint is the collective seven or ten classes of the manasaputras. It is also connected with the Chaldean heptakis. Thus Iao or Iao Hebdomas, according to the point of view, is not only the septenary groups of the lunar dhyanis or pitris, but likewise the seven or ten groups of the manasaputras.
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<networking> The country code for Angola.
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