Io Explained
Io most commonly refers to:
- Io (moon), a moon of Jupiter
- Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow
Io, IO, iO, I/O, i/o, or i.o. may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Fictional elements
- Scylla Io, one of Poseidon's Marine Generals in the Saint Seiya series
- A Dungeons & Dragons dragon deity
- Io Otonashi, a main character in the Japanese manga series Place to Place (Acchi Kocchi)
- Io Nitta, a character in the game
Gaming
Music
Theatre and opera
- Io (opera), an unfinished acte de ballet (opera) by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- iO Theater (ImprovOlympic), a theater in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to improvisational comedy
- IO West, a Los Angeles theater associated with the Chicago iO
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
- EO (original Polish title: IO), a 2022 Jerzy Skolimowski film
- Io (film), a 2019 Netflix film
- iO Digital Cable Service, a service offered by Cablevision
- International Organization, a peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire field of international affairs
Business and economics
- Industrial and organizational psychology, the field of psychology that studies work, academic, and other organizational issues
- Industrial organization, the field of economics that studies the strategic behavior of firms, the structure of markets and their interactions
- Insertion order, a business document specifying the inventory goal of an advertising campaign
- 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
- Interest-only, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) or mortgage-backed security
Language
- i.o., Latin: in illo ordine, Latin phrase meaning "respectively" ("in that order")
- Io (princely title), a particle of a title used by Moldavian and Wallachian Princes-regnant
- Ido language (ISO 639-1 language code IO), a constructed language
- Indirect object, the object that is the recipient of an action (by a verb)
- Yo, also referred to as Io
Mythology
- Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow
- 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 Matua Kore, in some Māori traditions the supreme god
People
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese manga artist
- Io Shirai (born 1990), Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese manga artist
- iO Tillett Wright (born 1985), American artist, director, photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor
Places on Earth
Science and technology
Astronomy
Biology and medicine
Computing
- .io, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the British Indian Ocean Territory
- Io (programming language), a pure object-oriented programming language
- IO.SYS, a system file in Microsoft DOS and Windows 95, 98 and ME
- Indistinguishability obfuscation, a cryptographic tool to obscure computer code
- Input/output, the collection of interfaces that different functional units of an information processing system use to communicate with each other
Other uses in science and technology
- Ionium (symbol Io), a claimed chemical element that was later realized to be thorium-230
- Iodine monoxide (symbol IO)
- Image orthicon tube, a TV camera used between 1946 and 1968
- Infinitely often, a mathematics term sometimes written "i.o."; see an example in set-theoretic limit
Other uses
See also
