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TAO

Tao or TAO can refer to
* Tao, a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion
* Taoism, a philosophical school based on the texts the Tao Te Ching; a family of organized Chinese religious movements; a Chinese folk religion
* Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text
* TAO (software) (The ACE ORB), a freely available, open-source, and standards-compliant real-time C++ implementation of CORBA
* Tao (software), a library giving .NET and mono developers access to popular graphics and gaming libraries like OpenGL and SDL
* Tao people, a Taiwanese aboriginal peoples, native to tiny outlying Orchid Island
* Tao (Atari) (Frank Seemann), an Atari ST demoscene musician
* TAO (song), Do As Infinity's final single, released 2005
* Ko Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand
* TAO (Collective), a radical tech organization based in Canada

TAO is used as an acronym for :
* Transitioning Applications to Ontologies, an European project in the FP6 framework
* Tactics Arena Online, a video game
* Ten Acre Observatory, in Oklahoma
* Tamke-Allen Observatory, in Tennessee
* Track At Once, an optical disc recording mode
* Triacetyloleandomycin, a chemical

People having Tao as part of their name:
* Tao Qian, influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poet
* Tao Yang (disambiguation)
* Wang Tao, a Qing dynasty translator, reformer, political columnist, newspaper publisher, and fiction writer
* Tao II the Brave (Seqenenra Tao), Egyptian ruler of Thebes who began ejection of the Hyksos from Ancient Egypt
* Tao Ren, Tao Jun, and Tao Yúan - fictional characters of Shaman King
* Tao Cheng
* Tao Huang
* Tao Feng
* Tao Peng
* Tao Wu

See also

* DAO



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