Pao Explained

Pao or PAO may refer to:

Fiction

• Pao-chan, a character from the Japanese magical girl anime television series, Ojamajo Doremi
• Pao, setting of The Languages of Pao, a science fiction novel by Jack Vance
• Pao, a Rebel commando in the film

People

• Pao Ching-yen (also spelled Bao Jingyan), a Chinese anarchist philosopher who presumably lived in the early fourth century C.E.
• Yih-Ho Michael Pao, an American entrepreneur and hydro-engineer
• Pa'O people, an ethnic group in Burma
• Pao language (disambiguation)
• Ellen Pao, American lawyer and former Reddit executive
• Yue-Kong Pao, Hong Kong businessman

Places

• Barangay Pao, an administrative division of Manaoag, Pangasinan
• PAO, the IATA airport code for Palo Alto Airport, Santa Clara County
• Pao River, a tributary of the Chi River in northeast Thailand
• Pao, Trakan Phuet Phon, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand
• Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas
• Paoli station, an Amtrak and SEPTA train station in Paoli, Pennsylvania (Amtrak station code)
• Sugarloaf Mountain, a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Pão de Açúcar in Portuguese

Technology

• Process-Architecture-Optimization, the new 3-generation CPU manufacturing process replacing Intel's tick–tock model

Organizations

• PAO, the ICAO code for Polynesian Airlines
• Panathinaikos A.O., a Greek multisport club
• Panhellenic Liberation Organization, a Greek resistance organization against the Axis occupation of Greece.
• Prince Alfred's Own, a historic name for the Cape Field Artillery
• Public Affairs Office
• Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper

Science

• Pao (genus), a genus of pufferfishes
• Pao (unit), an obsolete unit of mass and (especially) dry measure in South Asia
• Phased-array optics
• Pheophorbide a oxygenase, an enzyme
• Pierre Auger Observatory
• Polyalphaolefin, a type of polyolefin made from alpha-olefin monomer(s)
• Polyphosphate-accumulating organism

Other uses

• Pao (袍), an element of Han Chinese clothing
• Pão de queijo, a Brazilian cheesy bread
• A fairy chess piece
• Nissan Pao, an automobile
• PeriAcetabular Osteotomy, a surgery used to correct a condition called hip dysplasia or acetabular dysplasia
• Period-after-opening symbol found on cosmetics products
• Public affairs (military) Officer, or PAO, within the U.S. military
• Person-Action-Object (PAO), a technique often used in memory training and by memory athletes

See also

• • Pau (disambiguation)
• Pav (disambiguation)
• Bao (disambiguation)