- 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 expressionIn 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 MotorsPeople:
* Geo. is sometimes an abbreviation of the nameGeorge .
* Geo, the composer for the J-pop groupSweetbox
*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 organizationAs a place:
* GEO, the IATA code forCheddi Jagan International Airport
*Estadio Casas GEO , stadium in Mexicali, Mexico
* Geo or gio, is a creek (inlet) or gulley in the Orkney and Shetland Islands
* The IOC country code and three letter country code for GEO, a Eurasian country.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:
*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*
Geocaching , an outdoor activity that involves using navigational techniques to finds geocaches*
Geocoding orGeoTagging , 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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