STO may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government

  • NATO Science and Technology 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)