Dao (disambiguation)

Dao, Dão or DAO may refer to:

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

People and language

Yao people, 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 trigger mechanism for semi-automatic firearms

Organizations

The DAO (organization), 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)

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

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gollark: You probably could do an actual Morse code light, but I think if you can only move things around and heat them instead of actually generating light directly it would be more efficient to do the movable arms thingy.

gollark: Between ships and docks, maybe, for example? That might be useful.