STO explained

STO may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government

• Science & Technology Organization, a NATO organization
• Service du travail obligatoire, French men & women between certain ages deported to Germany during WWII to work as slave labour
• Sojourner Truth Organization, a defunct American leftist group
• Sovet Truda i Oborony (Совет труда и обороны): Council of Labor and Defense, a Soviet central planning agency of the 1920s
• United States Air Force Special Tactics Officer

Non-governmental organizations

• State Trading Organization, a publicly owned Maldivian company
• Statoil, a publicly traded Norwegian oil company

Science and technology

• Semi-automatic train operation
• Slater-type orbital, atomic orbitals
• STO-nG basis sets, of orbitals

Sports

• Space Tornado Ogawa, a professional wrestling throw
• SportsTime Ohio, a regional sports network in northeast Ohio, United States

Arts and entertainment

• Soldiers of the One, a group in the TV series Caprica
• Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• STO, a posture emoticon used for representing a great admiration or great despair, see Emoticon#Orz
• Sto, pen name of illustrator Sergio Tofano

Transport

• Société de transport de l'Outaouais, a public transit operator in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
• STO, the National Rail station code for South Tottenham railway station, London, England
• The airports of Stockholm, Sweden, by IATA code

Other uses

• Safe Torque Off, an electronic signal used in industrial drives for safety function
• Security through obscurity, a practice in security engineering
• Security token offering, a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, are sold in cryptocurrency exchanges
• Stø, a village in Norway
• Stoney language (ISO 639-3 code)
• STO (professional wrestling), a maneuver in professional wrestling

See also

• STOS (disambiguation)