geo
GEO or Geo may refer to any of the following:
In computational & scientific use:
- GEO (magazine), a popular scientific magazine
- GEO 600, a detector for gravitational radiation
- Global Environment Outlook, an environmental assessment produced by the United Nations
- Geo (microformat), a microformat for marking up WSG84 geographical coordinates in (X)HTML
- Gene Expression Omnibus, a National Center for Biotechnology Information database for gene expression
- Geostationary Earth Orbit another name for Geostationary orbit, a geosynchronous orbit directly above the Earth's equator
In commercial use:
- Geo (marketing), a discipline within marketing analysis
- Geo TV, a leading television channel in Pakistan
- Geo (automobile), a defunct brand of entry-level cars produced by General Motors
People:
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- Geo. is sometimes an abbreviation of the name George
- Rosan Geoman, known as Geo, a German music producer and composer
- Geo Bogza, a Romanian poet and essayist
- Geo Stelar is the main protagonist in Mega Man Star Force
As a group:
- Grupo Especial de Operaciones, a division of the Spanish police
- General Education Officer, the basic rank of teachers of the Ministry of Education in Singapore
- Group on Earth Observations, an intergovernmental organization
As a place:
- GEO, the IATA code for Cheddi Jagan International Airport
- Estadio Casas GEO, stadium in Mexicali, Mexico
- Geo (landscape), a creek (inlet) or gulley in the Orkney and Shetland Islands
- The IOC country code and three letter country code for
Georgia, a Eurasian country - Geo City, a fictional city in the videogame Raw Danger
As a prefix: geo- is taken from the Greek word γη or γαια meaning "earth", usually in the sense of "ground or land". Geo- is thus a prefix for many words dealing in some way with the earth, including:
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- Geography, the study of the Earth and its features
- Geology, the study of the Earth's structure
- Geopolitics, the analysis of history, geography and social science with respect to international politics
- Geodesy, also known as geodetics, the study of the measurement and representation of the earth
- Geothermal (geology), heat sources from within the Earth
- Geo-exchange, a heating and cooling system
- Geometry, the study of spatial relationships
- Geocentric, a model of the universe that places the earth at its centre
- Geostationary orbit, a circular orbit directly above the earth's equator
- Geosynchronous orbit, an orbit that has the same period as the Earth's sidereal rotation
- Geocentric, a model of the universe that places the earth at its centre
- Geocaching, an outdoor activity that involves using navigational techniques to finds geocaches
- Geocoding or GeoTagging, encoding coordinates in to features, images, web pages and other data records
- Geolocation, the science of determining the real-world location of a website or website visitor
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