title: STO
text: # STO
  
  STO may refer to:
  
  ## Businesses and organizations
  
  ### Government
  
  * Science & Technology Organization, a NATO organization
  * Service du travail obligatoire, French men & women between certain ages deported to Germany during WWII to work as slave labour
  * Société de transport de l'Outaouais, a public transit operator in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
  * 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
  
  * 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 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
  