Dao, Dão or DAO may refer to:

  • Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept
  • Dao (Chinese sword) (刀), a type of Chinese sword
  • Dao (Naga sword), a weapon and a tool of Naga people

People and language

  • Yao people (Asia), a minority ethnic group of Vietnam
  • Dao language (Papuan), Indonesia
  • Dao language (China)
  • Dao (surname) (Đào), a Vietnamese surname
  • Dao (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of genie in the game Dungeons & Dragons
  • Dão (footballer) (born 1984), Brazilian football defender

Places

  • Dao (country subdivision) (Dào), historical political divisions in China translated as "circuits"
  • Dao (state), a historical state during the Zhou dynasty
  • Dao, Capiz, Philippines
  • Dao County, in Yongzhou, Hunan, China
  • Dão DOC, a wine region in Portugal
  • Dão River, a river in Portugal

Science and technology

Biology

  • D-amino acid oxidase, a peroxisomal enzyme
  • Diamine oxidase, an enzyme, also known as histaminase, involved in the metabolism of histamine
  • D-aspartate oxidase, in enzymology
  • Dracontomelon dao, a species of tropical canopy tree known as dao in Filipino

Computing

  • Data access object, a design pattern used in object-oriented software engineering
  • Jet Data Access Objects, a general programming interface for database access on Microsoft Windows systems
  • Disk-at-Once, an optical disc recording mode
  • Decentralized autonomous organization, an organization that is run through rules encoded as computer programs called smart contracts

Other

  • De-asphalted oil, a crude oil refinery process stream
  • Double-action only, a type of trigger mechanism for handguns

Organizations

  • Decentralized autonomous organization, a type of organization
  • The DAO, a former digital organization established in 2016
  • Defence Acquisition Organisation, the former name of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
  • Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
  • Daallo Airlines (ICAO code)
  • Dansk Avis Omdeling, a postal service in Denmark

Arts and entertainment

  • Dao (film), a film by Tsui Hark
  • Dao (game), an abstract strategy game
  • DAO (album), a 1996 album by jazz saxophonist David S. Ware

Other uses

  • Defense Attaché Office, the office for military matters at embassies; for example see Embassy of the United States, Tel Aviv

See also

  • Dão-Lafões, a region in Portugal
  • Taoism
  • Dau (disambiguation)
  • Tao (disambiguation)