STO may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government

* Science & Technology Organization, a NATO organization * ''

Service du travail obligatoire The ' (STO; ) was the forced enlistment and deportation of hundreds of thousands of French workers to Nazi Germany to work as Forced labor in Germany during World War II, forced labour for the German war effort during World War II. The STO was ...

'', French men & women between certain ages deported to Germany during WWII to work as slave labour * Sojourner Truth Organization, a defunct American leftist group * Sovet Truda i Oborony (Совет труда и обороны):

Council of Labor and Defense The Council of Labor and Defense ()Sovet truda i oborony, Latin acronym: STO), first established as the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense in November 1918, was an agency responsible for the central management of the economy and production ...

, 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 Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy. In th ...

, a publicly traded Norwegian oil company

Science and technology

* Semi-automatic train operation *

Slater-type orbital Slater-type orbitals (STOs) or Slater-type functions (STFs) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method. They are named after the physicist John C. Slater, who introduced them in 1930 ...

, atomic orbitals * STO-nG basis sets, of orbitals

Sports

* Space Tornado Ogawa, a professional wrestling throw *

SportsTime Ohio SportsTime Ohio was an American regional sports network which was last known as Bally Sports Great Lakes. At the time it left the air, the network was owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group) and operated as an affiliate ...

, a regional sports network in northeast Ohio, United States

Arts and entertainment

* Soldiers of the One, a group in the TV series ''

Caprica ''Caprica'' is a 2010 American science fiction drama television series, which is a prequel spin-off of the 2004–2009 series ''Battlestar Galactica''. ''Caprica'' is set 58 years before the main series, and shows how humanity first created the ...

'' *

Star Trek Online ''Star Trek Online'' is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios based on the ''Star Trek'' franchise. The game is set in the 25th century, 30 years after the events of '' Star Trek: Nemesis''. ''Star Trek O ...

, 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 Sergio Tòfano (20 August 1886 – 28 October 1973) was an Italian actor, theatre director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. As a comics artist, he is best-known for creating '' Signor Bonaventura''. Biography Tofano was born in ...

Transport

Société de transport de l'Outaouais Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy pr ...

, a public transit operator in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada * STO, the National Rail station code for

South Tottenham railway station South Tottenham is a railway station on the Suffragette line of the London Overground. It is located on the eastern side of the A10 road (England), A10 High Road in Tottenham, North London, from (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street ...

, London, England * The airports of

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

, Sweden, by IATA code

Other uses

Safe Torque Off The Safe Torque Off (STO) is an electronic signal used in industrial motor controller A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor. A motor controller might i ...

, an electronic signal used in industrial drives for safety function *

Security through obscurity In security engineering, security through obscurity is the practice of concealing the details or mechanisms of a system to enhance its security. This approach relies on the principle of hiding something in plain sight, akin to a magician's slei ...

, a practice in security engineering *

Security token offering A security token offering (STO) / tokenized IPO is a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, known as security tokens, are sold in security token exchanges. Tokens can be used to trade real financial assets such as equities ...

, a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, are sold in cryptocurrency exchanges *

Stø Stø is a fishing village in Øksnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the northern tip of the island of Langøya, along the Gavlfjorden in the Vesterålen archipelago. In 2001, there were about 175 residents. This village ...

, a village in Norway *

Stoney language Stoney—also called Nakota, Nakoda, Isga, and formerly Alberta Assiniboine—is a member of the Dakota subgroup of the Mississippi Valley grouping of the Siouan languages. The Dakotan languages constitute a dialect continuum consisting of Sante ...

(ISO 639-3 code) *

STO (professional wrestling) Professional wrestling throws are the application of professional wrestling techniques that involve lifting the opponent up and throwing or slamming them down. They are sometimes also called "power" maneuvers, as they are meant to emphasize a wrest ...

, a maneuver in professional wrestling