SCO or sco may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Santa Cruz Operation, a company founded in 1979 that existed under that name until 2001
  • SCO Group, a software company formerly called Caldera International and Caldera Systems
  • SCO OpenServer (formerly SCO Unix), an operating system made by the above companies
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a Eurasian inter-governmental political, economic, and security organization
  • Society of Canadian Ornithologists
  • Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Special Communications Organization, a Pakistani telecommunication company
  • The ICAO airline code for Scoot

Orchestras

  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Singapore Chinese Orchestra
  • Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Science and technology

  • Scorpius, abbreviation for the constellation
  • Self-checkout machines, automated alternatives to traditional cashier-staffed checkout at retailers
  • Single cell oil, a type of oil produced by a microbe
  • Subcommissural organ, a small glandular structure in the brain
  • Synchronous Connection Oriented protocol, used for audio devices in the Bluetooth protocol stack
  • Synthetic crude oil, a type of crude oil

Other uses

  • .sco, a formerly proposed top-level domain for Scotland
  • Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan (IATA code SCO)
  • Angers SCO, a French football club
  • Scots language (ISO 639-2 & -3 alpha-3 code: sco)
  • Selected Characteristics of Occupations, a companion volume to the U.S. Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  • Single Cell Orchestra, stage name of musician Miguel Fierro
  • Sports teams representing Scotland, by country code
  • Railway service code for South Coast Line, New South Wales, Australia
  • Syllabus, or Standard Course Outline
  • United States Office of Special Counsel (disambiguation), various government offices referred to as the "Special Counsel's Office"