O (disambiguation)

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O, or o, is the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet.

O may also refer to:

Letters

  • Օ օ, (Unicode: U+0555, U+0585) a letter in the Armenian alphabet
  • Ο ο, Omicron, (Greek), a letter in the Greek alphabet
  • O (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
  • O (kana), a romanization of the kana (お and オ) in Japanese writing
  • ㅇ, a consonant in Hangul, the Korean alphabet
  • ဝ, a consonant in Burmese script

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • O (film), 2001 film starring Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer and Julia Stiles

Literature

  • O: A Presidential Novel, anonymous novel published in 2011
  • O, fictional planet that is the setting of several short stories by science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin
  • O, fictional character from the French erotic novel Story of O
  • "O" Is for Outlaw, the fifteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1999

Media and publications

Music

  • "O (Oh!)", 1920 by Ted Lewis, 1953 by Pee Wee Hunt
  • O (A.C. Acoustics album), 2002
  • O (Damien Rice album), 2002
  • O (Eiko Shimamiya album), 2006
  • O (Omarion album), 2005
    • "O" (Omarion song), the title song
  • o (Tilly and the Wall album), 2008
  • O (EP), a 2023 EP by Yuju
  • O, 2002 album by Zone
  • "O", a 2014 song by Coldplay from Ghost Stories
  • "o", a song by iamamiwhoami
  • "O!", a song by the American band Bright from The Albatross Guest House, 1997
  • O (musician), American musician

Sports

  • O (gesture), a gesture used to show support for the sports teams of the University of Oregon
  • Baltimore Orioles, an American Major League Baseball team, among whose common nicknames are "O's" and "The O's"

Others

  • O (Cirque du Soleil), show at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Companies

  • Essie's Original Hot Dog shop (commonly known as "The O"), a restaurant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Overstock.com, online retailer previously known as O.co
  • Realty Income, American real estate investment trust (NYSE stock ticker O)

History

  • O-class battlecruiser, class of German ships in the 1930s
  • The O (political group) (The Organization), a 1970s American political group

Linguistics

Mathematics

  • f = O ( g ) {\displaystyle f=O(g)} , a Bachmann–Landau notation in computational complexity theory ("|f| is bounded above by g asymptotically")
  • f = o ( g ) {\displaystyle f=o(g)} , a Bachmann–Landau notation in computational complexity theory ("f is dominated by g asymptotically")
  • O, for orthogonal group
  • ∘ indicates function composition, or composition of morphisms in a category
  • Category O or O {\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}} , a category of Lie algebra representations
  • o, for octet, an information measure unit used in computing

Media

  • O, an IRC operator service in QuakeNet's IRC services
  • O Channel, the former name of Moji a television network in Indonesia

Places

  • O Brook, a short river in Devon, England

Science

  • Oxygen, symbol O, a chemical element
  • O, a human blood type, the universal donor
  • Haplogroup O (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA haplogroup
  • O, for pyrrolysine an alpha amino acid in biochemistry
  • Class O, stellar classification for very hot bluish stars
  • O (for Octavius, meaning an eight of a gallon), an apothecary's symbol for a pint

Surname

  • O (surname), Korean surname romanized "O" or "Oh"
  • Ō (Japanese surname), Japanese surname derived from the Chinese surname Wang (王)
  • Ō clan a historical Japanese clan with an unrelated surname
  • Ou (surname), Chinese and Cantonese surnames pronounced "O" or "Oh"
  • A prefix meaning "grandson (of)", appearing in Irish surnames
  • Genovevo de la O (1876-1952), Mexican revolutionary
  • Karen O, born Karen Lee Orzolek, American singer

Other uses

See also

Search for "o" on Wikipedia.
  • All pages with titles beginning with O
  • All pages with titles containing O
  • Mr. O (TV show)
  • Circle (disambiguation)
  • Circle symbol (disambiguation)
  • Zero (disambiguation)
  • Big O (disambiguation)
  • Omicron (disambiguation) including Ο/ο
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