ACO, AcO, or Aco may refer to:

Organizations

Accountable care organization An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization that ties provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the cost of care. ACOs in the United States are formed from a group of coordinated health-care practitione ...

, healthcare organization characterized by a specific payment and care delivery model * Aco Records, a British 1920s record label *

ACO, C.A. ACO, C.A. is a Venezuelan holding company for an umbrella organization of over eighty companies engaged in a wide variety of industries throughout Venezuela predominantly in the automotive industry. It is best known for the sale, servicing and lea ...

, a Venezuelan holding company *

Air Cadet Organisation The Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC) is a volunteer-military youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Air Force that manages both the Air Training Corps and RAF Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. The organisation is headed by a former serv ...

, collective name for the UK cadet forces sponsored by the Royal Air Force * The Airline Cooperative, an organization of international airlines formed in 2012 *

Allied Command Operations Allied Command Operations (ACO) is one of the two strategic commands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the other being Allied Command Transformation (ACT). The headquarters and commander of ACO is Supreme Headquarters Allied Powe ...

, the NATO strategic command * Alvarez Chamber Orchestra *

American Composers Orchestra The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra administratively based in New York City, specialising in contemporary American music. The ACO gives concerts at various concert venues in New York City, including: * Zankel Hall at ...

American Cornhole Organization The American Cornhole Organization (ACO) is an American organization for the sport of cornhole. Based in Camp Dennison, Ohio, the ACO was founded in 2005 by Frank Geers. It is a governing body for cornhole, runs and promotes Professional & Rec ...

* Arts Center of the Ozarks, community theater in Springdale, Arkansas, US *

Association of Cricket Officials The Association of Cricket Officials (ACO) is an organisation set up to represent and support cricket officials, especially umpires and scorers. It operates under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and is often referred to ...

Australian Chamber Orchestra The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) was founded by cellist John Painter in 1975.Verghis, Sharon"Bach with more bite pays off" ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 2 September 2005. Richard Tognetti was appointed Lead Violin in 1989 and subsequently appo ...

* Australian College of Optometry *

Automobile Club de l'Ouest The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (English: Automobile Club of the West), sometimes abbreviated to ACO, is the largest automotive group in France. It was founded in 1906 by car building and racing enthusiasts, and is most famous for being the organ ...

, organizers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race * Avenir du Congo, a political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Canadian Association of Orthodontists The Canadian Association of Orthodontists (CAO; French: ''Association canadienne des orthodontistes'', ACO), founded in 1949, is the Canadian national organization of educationally qualified orthodontic specialists. Its headquarters are in Markham, ...

(''Association canadienne des orthodontistes'', ACO)

Places

* Aco District, Concepción, Peru *

Aco District, Corongo Aco District is one of seven districts of the Corongo Province in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is a ...

, Peru

People

* Aco (given name), a list of people *

Michel Aco Michel Aco ( fl. 1680–1702, also known as Michel Accault) was a French explorer who, along with René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin, explored the Mississippi River in 1679. Aco became La Salle's lieutenant becau ...

(), French explorer in North America *

Aco (musician) A..C..O (born February 3, 1977) is a Japanese singer. She made her debut in 1995 with the pop single . She is a part of Sony Music Japan. She explores different musical styles, with the albums ''Absolute Ego'' and ''Material'' displaying elect ...

(born 1977), Japanese female singer

Other uses

* Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies (ACO) *

Acetoxy group In organic chemistry, the acetoxy group (abbr. AcO or OAc; IUPAC name: acetyloxy), is a functional group with the formula and the structure . As the ''-oxy'' suffix implies, it differs from the acetyl group () by the presence of an addition ...

(AcO), a chemical functional group *

All-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase All-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase (, ''Diox1'', ''ACO'', ''8'-apo-beta-carotenal 15,15'-oxygenase'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''all-trans-8'-apo-beta-carotenal:oxygen 15,15'-oxidoreductase (bond-cleaving)''. This enzyme cat ...

, an enzyme * Analog Coherent Optical module (CFP2-ACO), an interoperability agreement produced by the

Optical Internetworking Forum The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is a prominent non-profit consortium that was founded in 1998. It promotes the development and deployment of interoperable computer networking products and services through implementation agreements (IAs) fo ...

* Animal control officer, a qualified person in the

Animal control service An animal control service or animal control agency is an entity charged with responding to requests for help with animals ranging from wild animals, dangerous animals, or animals in distress. An individual who works for such an entity was once kno ...

Ant colony optimization In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants stand for mult ...

, a computer algorithm *

, a type of health system model

Organizations

Places

People

Other uses

See also