PBO may refer to:

Government

  • Parliamentary Budget Office, in the federal government of Australia
  • Parliamentary Budget Officer, a Canadian civil servant
  • Projected benefit obligation, a specially defined pension obligation under US-GAAP

Sciences

  • Lead(II) oxide (PbO)
  • Zylon, or Polybenzobisoxazole, a polymer
  • Piperonyl butoxide, a pesticide synergist

Places

  • Peterborough railway station (National Rail code: PBO)
  • Paraburdoo Airport, Paraburdoo, Australia (IATA airport code: PBO)
  • Pine Bluff Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Wisconsin, USA
  • Plate Boundary Observatory, a geodetic observatory in the western United States
  • Portland Bird Observatory, a wildlife observatory on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, UK

Programming

  • Pixel buffer objects, used for asynchronous pixel transfer operations in OpenGL

People

  • Push Button Objects, a producer of experimental hip-hop
  • President Barack Obama, former president of the United States

Video games

  • Packed Bohemia Object, a data file used in the war games developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio

Computing

  • Precision Boost Overdrive, a technology by AMD for processor overclocking

Other uses

  • Pinoy Box Office, a Filipino cable channel
  • Public Benefit Organization, a type of charity or non-profit organization
  • Paperback original, a book originally published as paperback
  • Pin Bones Out, a type of fish fillet
  • Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra