PTO may stand for:
Organisations
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Patent and Trademark Office (disambiguation), a government office that handles the issuing of both patents and trademarks
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Parent teacher organization
A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A ''biological parent'' is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male ...
, organization that consists of parents, teachers and school staff
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Peace Train Organisation, a campaign group set up in response to the repeated bombing of the Dublin to Belfast railway line
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Professional Triathletes Organisation
The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) is an organisation that represents non-drafting professional triathletes. Its mission is to professionalise and promote the sport of triathlon. The PTO is a hybrid of a not-for-profit organisation a ...
, an organisation that representing non-drafting professional triathletes
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Public Telecommunications Operator, a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access
Entertainment
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PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations, a war strategy simulation series by Koei based on the World War II events
* "P:T:O:", a track from the 1977 Klaus Schulze album ''
Body Love''
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The Phantom of the Opera (adaptations)
There have been many literary and dramatic works based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' ranging from stage musicals to films to children's books. Some well known stage and screen adaptations of the novel are the 1925 fil ...
, ''The Phantom of the Opera'' — the original novel or an adaptation (movie/musical/literature) or the Phantom character from any of these
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Please Turn Over'', a 1959 British comedy film
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Promenade Theatre Orchestra, an English quartet founded in 1969
Other
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Pacific Theater of Operations, World War II
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Paid time off
Paid time off, planned time off, or personal time off (PTO), is a policy in some employee handbooks that provides a bank of hours in which the employer pools sick days, vacation days, and personal days that allows employees to use as the need o ...
, time an employee can draw from to take time off from work, without having to specify a reason
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Parietal-temporal-occipital
The parietal-temporal-occipital (PTO) association area is located in the cerebral cortex which is bounded by the anterior somatic association area and posterior visual cortex of the human brain. As its name implies, the PTO includes portions of t ...
association area, this association area is responsible for the assembly of
auditory,
visual
The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight ...
, and
somatosensory system
In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch ( haptic perception), as well as temperature ( thermoception), body position ( proprioception), and pain. I ...
information
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Peeled tail-on shrimp
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Permeability Tuned Oscillator is an electronic circuit whose resonant frequency is altered by moving a sintered iron powder core in and out of the tuning coil.
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Permission to officiate
A permission to officiate (PTO), also known as a licence to officiate, is a concessionary ministry licence granted by an Anglican bishop. It is most commonly issued to a retired deacon, priest, or lay reader over the age of 70 years. It allows the ...
, a limited form of license to undertake ecclesiastical duties within the Church of England
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Phoenix Thunderbirds Open, a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1962 to 1965
*''Please Turn Over'', used on a printed document to tell reader to turn over and continue reading
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Power take-off
A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.
Most commonly, it is a s ...
, a splined driveshaft, usually on a tractor or truck, that can be used to provide power to an attachment or separate machine
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Professional tryout, a type of contract in professional ice hockey
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pto, ISO 639-3 language code for the
Zo'é language
Zo'é (Jo'é) is spoken by the indigenous Zo'é people of Pará, Brazil. It is close to the Emerillon language
Emerillon (otherwise known as Emerilon, Emerion, Mero, Melejo, Mereyo or Teko) is a language belonging to the Tupi–Guarani family, ...
See also
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