ACO, AcO, or Aco may refer to:

Aviation

Air Cadet Organisation The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is the combined volunteer-military youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Air Force, which is formed by both the Air Training Corps and RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. The organisation is heade ...

, collective name for the UK cadet forces sponsored by the Royal Air Force * The Airline Cooperative, an organization of international airlines formed in 2012 * IATA airport code for

Cobano Airport Cobano Airport is an airport in Cóbano, Costa Rica. It is served regularly by Costa Rica Green Airways from San José, and SANSA from Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It ...

in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

Organizations

Accountable care organization An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization that ties provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the cost of care. ACOs in the United States are formed from a group of coordinated health-care practitione ...

, healthcare organization characterized by a specific payment and care delivery model * ACO, C.A., a Venezuelan holding company * Aco Records, a British 1920s record label *

Allied Command Operations The Allied Command Operations (ACO) is one of the two strategic commands of the NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the other being Allied Command Transformation (ACT). The headquarters and commander of ACO is Supreme Headquarters A ...

, the NATO strategic command * Alvarez Chamber Orchestra *

American Composers Orchestra The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including: * Zankel Hall at ...

American Cornhole Organization The American Cornhole Organization (ACO) was founded in 2005 by Frank Geers and is an organization created for the purpose of transforming the game of cornhole, often played recreationally for fun, into a competitive National Sport. Headquarter ...

* Arts Center of the Ozarks, community theater in Springdale, Arkansas, US *

Association of Cricket Officials The Association of Cricket Officials (ACO) is an organisation set up to represent and support cricket officials, especially Umpire (cricket), umpires and Scoring (cricket), scorers. It operates under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket ...

Australian Chamber Orchestra The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) is an Australian orchestra focused on chamber music based in Sydney. History The Australian Chamber Orchestra was founded by cellist John Painter in 1975.Verghis, Sharon"Bach with more bite pays off" ''T ...

Australian College of Optometry The Australian College of Optometry (ACO) is an Australian non-profit working to improve the eye health and well-being of various Australian communities. Established in 1940, the ACO's goal is to deliver public health optometry, vision resear ...

Automobile Club de l'Ouest The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (English: Automobile Club of the West), sometimes abbreviated to ACO, is the largest automotive group in France. It was founded in 1906 by car building and racing enthusiasts, and is most famous for being the organ ...

, sportscar racing governing body * Avenir du Congo, a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Canadian Association of Orthodontists The Canadian Association of Orthodontists (CAO; , ACO), founded in 1949, is the Canadian national organization of educationally qualified orthodontic specialists. It is headquartered in Markham, Ontario.Aco (given name) Aco is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Aleksandar, which may refer to: * Aleksandar Aco Apolonio (died 2001), first and only president of the self-proclaimed Dubrovnik Republic (1991–1992) * Aleksandar Aco Đukanović ...

, a list of people *

Aco (musician) A..C..O (born February 3, 1977) is a Japanese singer. She made her debut in 1995 with the pop single . She is a part of Sony Music Japan. She explores different musical styles, with the albums ''Absolute Ego'' and ''Material'' displaying elect ...

(born 1977), Japanese female singer *

Michel Aco Michel Aco (fl. 1680–1702, also known as Michel Accault) was a French explorer who, along with René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin, explored the Mississippi River in 1679. Aco became La Salle's lieutenant becau ...

(), French explorer in North America

Places

* Aco District, Concepción, Peru *

Aco District, Corongo Aco District is one of seven districts of the Corongo Province in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is a s ...

, Peru

Other uses

Abell catalog The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift ''z'' ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, wh ...

of rich clusters of galaxies (ACO) *

, a type of health system model *

Acetoxy group In organic chemistry, the acetoxy group (abbr. AcO– or –OAc; IUPAC name: acetyloxy), is a functional group with the formula and the structure . As the ''-oxy'' suffix implies, it differs from the acetyl group () by the presence of an addit ...

(AcO), a chemical functional group *

All-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase All-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase (, ''Diox1'', ''ACO'', ''8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''all-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal:oxygen 15,15'-oxidoreductase (bond-cleaving)''. This enzyme cat ...

, an enzyme * Analog Coherent Optical module (CFP2-ACO), an interoperability agreement produced by the

Optical Internetworking Forum The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is a prominent non-profit consortium that was founded in 1998. It promotes the development and deployment of interoperable computer networking products and services through implementation agreements (IAs) f ...

* Animal control officer, a qualified person in the

Animal control service An animal control service or animal control agency is an entity charged with responding to requests for help with animals, including wild animals, dangerous animals, and animals in distress. An individual who works for such an entity was once kn ...

Ant colony optimization In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants represent multi ...

, a computer algorithm

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