Bo or BO may refer to
Arts and entertainment
Film, television, and theatre
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Box office
A box office or ticket office is a place where ticket (admission), tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a Wicket gate, wicke ...
, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives
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BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film
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''Bo'' (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots
Gaming
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Call of Duty: Black Ops'', a first-person shooter video game
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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'', first in the Legacy of Kain video game series
Music
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Bo (instrument)
The bo () is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbal. It consists of two plates that are clashed together. It is a concussion idiophone.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one from nineteenth century China. Both parts ...
, a Chinese cymbal
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Bo, a Greek rapper.
Religion
*Bo or
Bodhi Tree
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Bo (parsha)
Bo ( — in Hebrew, the command form of "go," or "come," and the first significant word in the parashah, in ) is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Exodus ...
, fifteenth weekly Torah reading
Ethnic groups
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Bo people (China) The Bo people () are an ancient extinct people from the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of Southern China. They are famous for their hanging coffins. They were one of the various now extinct peoples from Southern China known collectively in Chinese rec ...
, a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China
*Bo people of Laos, see
List of ethnic groups in Laos
The following is a list of ethnic groups in Laos.
Classification
Specialists are largely in agreement as to the ethnolinguistic classification of the ethnic groups of Laos. For the purposes of the 1995 census, the government of Laos recognized 14 ...
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Bo people (Andaman)
The Bo were one of the ten indigenous tribes of the Great Andamanese people, originally living on the western coast of North Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean.
The tribe spoke a distinctive Bo language, closely related to the other Great Andama ...
, a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands
Human names
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Bo (given name) Bo is a mainly Swedish/Danish masculine given name, derived from the Old Norse verb ''búa'' ("to reside"). A variant of Bo is the Swedish ''Bosse''. Bo is uncommon as a surname. Bo is also short for names including Beaufort, Beauregard, Bonita, ...
, name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname
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Bo (surname) Bo or Bó as a surname may refer to:
* Achillina Bo, birth name of Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
* Armando Bó (1914–1981), Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer, fathe ...
, name origin, plus a list of people with the surname
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Bo (Chinese surname)
Bo is a set of several Chinese family names, including , , , , etc. Among these names, is the 213th most common surname in China at present, shared by at least 430,000 Chinese citizens,[Bő (genus)
Bő was the name of a ''gens'' (Latin for "clan"; ''nemzetség'' in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary, which initially possessed landholdings and villages in Somogy County. Among other families, the Túz de Lak noble family descended from them. ...]
, Hungarian medieval noble clan
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Bø (disambiguation)
Bø may refer to the following:
Places
Norway
Of places in Norway, Bø most commonly refers to:
* Bø, Telemark, a municipality in Telemark county in Southern Norway, population 5,977. Home of the main campus of the University of South-Eastern ...
, which includes several people with the surname
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Htun Aeindra Bo
Htun Eaindra Bo ( my, ထွန်းအိန္ဒြာဗို, ; also Htun Aeindra Bo; born 1 May 1966) is a three-time Myanmar Academy Award winning actress and singer. The Mogok native began her film career in 1991, and has achieved fame ...
, Burmese actress and singer born Mi Mi Khine in 1966
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Lisa del Bo
Lisa del Bo (born Reinhilde Goossens on 9 June 1961 in Mopertingen, Belgium) is a Belgian singer who is popular in her own country and also in Germany. Lisa del Bo is a Flemish singer who often sings in the Dutch language but has been known to re ...
, Belgian singer born Reinhilde Goossens in 1961
*Bo Dupp, a ring name, along with
Otto Schwanz
William Murray Happer (born October 4, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and trainer, best known by his ring name Otto Schwanz. He competed primarily in the Carolinas since the mid-2000s, and has wrestled for many promotions including CW ...
, of American professional wrestler William Happer (born 1972)
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Björgvin Halldórsson
Björgvin Helgi Halldórsson (Alternate names: Bó Halldórsson, Björgvin Halldórsson or Bó Hall) (born 16 April 1951) is an Icelandic pop singer from Hafnarfjörður. He represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song ' ...
, Icelandic singer also known as "Bo"
Science
Biology and medicine
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Bacterial overgrowth
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), also termed bacterial overgrowth, or small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome (SBBOS), is a disorder of excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine. Unlike the colon (or large bowel), which is r ...
, a medical disorder of malabsorption
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Bowel obstruction
Bowel obstruction, also known as intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical or Ileus, functional obstruction of the Gastrointestinal tract#Lower gastrointestinal tract, intestines which prevents the normal movement of the products of digestion. Eith ...
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Body odor
Body odor or body odour (BO) is present in all animals and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies). Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but can also be strongly influenced by various diseases ...
or B.O.
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Bronchiolitis obliterans
Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), also known as obliterative bronchiolitis, constrictive bronchiolitis and popcorn lung, is a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs (bronchioles) due to inflammation. Symptoms include ...
* BO strain of the ''
Caenorhabditis elegans
''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (ro ...
'' var. ''Bergerac'' model worm
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Ficus religiosa
''Ficus religiosa'' or sacred fig is a species of Ficus, fig native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina that belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family. It is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, peepul tree, peepal tree, pipa ...
'', a.k.a. Bo-Tree, a species of Asian fig
Mathematics, chemistry and physics
* ''BO,'' in mathematics, the classifying space of the
orthogonal group
In mathematics, the orthogonal group in dimension , denoted , is the Group (mathematics), group of isometry, distance-preserving transformations of a Euclidean space of dimension that preserve a fixed point, where the group operation is given by ...
* In chemistry and physics, the
Born–Oppenheimer approximation
In quantum chemistry and molecular physics, the Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is the best-known mathematical approximation in molecular dynamics. Specifically, it is the assumption that the wave functions of atomic nuclei and electro ...
Places
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Bő
Bő is a village in Sárvár District of Vas County, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukrain ...
, Hungary, a village
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Bø (disambiguation)
Bø may refer to the following:
Places
Norway
Of places in Norway, Bø most commonly refers to:
* Bø, Telemark, a municipality in Telemark county in Southern Norway, population 5,977. Home of the main campus of the University of South-Eastern ...
, various places in Norway
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Bo, Chanthaburi
Bo ( th, บ่อ, ) is a ''tambon'' (subdistrict) of Khlung District, in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand. In 2017 it had a total population of 7,213 people.
Administration
Central administration
The ''tambon'' is subdivided into 10 administra ...
, Thailand
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Bo, Hòa Bình
Bo is a town and the capital of the Kim Bôi District of Hòa Bình Province, in the northwestern region of Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Sout ...
, Vietnam
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Bo, Sierra Leone
Bo, also commonly referred to as Bo Town, is the second largest city in Sierra Leone by landscape/geographical location (after Freetown) and the largest city in the Southern Province. Bo is the capital and administrative centre of Bo District. Th ...
, a city
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Bo, Yaba, Burkina Faso
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Le Bô
Le Bô () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions ...
, a commune in the Calvados departement, France
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Palazzo Bo
The Bo Palace (Italian: Palazzo del Bo), is the historical seat of University of Padua since 1493, It is still home to the Rectorate and the School of Law. It is also home to the oldest anatomical theatre
An anatomical theatre (Latin: ) was a ...
, or "Il Bo", the historic seat of the University of Padua in Italy
*Bo (, ''Bó''), the original capital of the
Tang King who founded China's Shang Dynasty, and its accurate location is still disputed. Two strong candidates are
Yanshi Shang City
Yanshi District () is a district in the prefecture-level city of Luoyang in western Henan province, China. Yanshi lies on the Luo River and is the easternmost county-level division of Luoyang.
History
After the Zhou conquest of Shang in mid-11th ...
and
Zhengzhou Shang City
The Zhengzhou Shang City () is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age Erligang culture in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Studies give it 4 chronological phases from 1630 to 1400 BC. The excavation (archaeology), excavation of the site is of great im ...
.
Transportation
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...
(reporting mark BO)
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Bouraq Indonesia Airlines
Bouraq Indonesia Airlines, often shortened to Bouraq Airlines or just Bouraq, was an airline headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, which operated mostly domestic passenger flights out of its bases at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Sul ...
(IATA airline code BO)
*BO, UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement
0-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were ...
, in the Whyte notation
Other uses
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Bó (bank)
Bó was a banking brand that operated in the United Kingdom between November 2019 and May 2020. Bó operated as a trading division of National Westminster Bank, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, later renamed NatWest Group.
History
In ...
, a banking brand in the United Kingdom
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Bō, or east Asian quarterstaff, a staff weapon used in the martial art Bōjutsu
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Bō, a Japanese honorific suffix
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Bo (dog)
Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) was a pet dog of the Obama family, the first family of the United States from 2009 until 2017. President Barack Obama and his family were given the male Portuguese Water Dog as a gift after months of specula ...
(2008–2021), a pet belonging to U.S. President Barack Obama
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Bo (title)
The nobility of China was an important feature of the traditional Social structure of China, social structure of History of China#Ancient China, Ancient China and History of China#Imperial China, Imperial China.
While the concepts of Inheritance ...
, a Chinese title typically translated as "count"
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Bo Bedre'', Danish lifestyle and interior design
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Bojagi
A bojagi (, sometimes shortened to ) is a traditional Korean wrapping cloth. Bojagi are typically square and can be made from a variety of materials, though silk or ramie are common. Embroidered bojagi are known as subo, while patchwork or scrap b ...
or ''bo'', a Korean wrapping cloth
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Bojangles (disambiguation)
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Bo School
The Bo Government Secondary School commonly known as Bo School is a secondary school located on a property in the center of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone. The school was founded in 1906 at the behest of the British colonial govern ...
, a secondary school in Bo, Sierra Leone
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Back Orifice
Back Orifice (often shortened to BO) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location.Richtel, Matt.Hacker Group Say ...
, remote administration software
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Barrel of Oil
A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units ...
, sometimes used in place of ''bbl''
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Beneficial owner
Beneficial owner is a legal term where specific property rights ("use and title") in equity belong to a person even though legal title of the property belongs to another person. Beneficial owner is subject to a state's statutory laws regulating i ...
, in property law
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Biarritz Olympique
Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine which competes in the Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. Biarritz p ...
, a French rugby union club
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Business Objects (company)
Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final ea ...
, an enterprise software company
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Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg
, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
(ISO 3166-1 country code)
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.bo, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bolivia
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Bo language (disambiguation)
*"bo",
Standard Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
In the traditional "three-branch ...
ISO 639-1 language code
See also
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Pages that begin with "Bo"
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Pages that include "Bo"
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B0 (disambiguation) B0 may refer to:
* , a net magnetisation vector in medical imaging
* B0 star, a subclass of B- class stars
* Pininfarina B0, an electric car
* A paper size
* The neutral B meson in particle physics
* B-0 : a code name for the FLOW-MATIC compiler
*La ...
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BOH (disambiguation)
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Beau (disambiguation)
Beau may refer to:
* Beau (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname or surname
* Beau (guitarist) (born 1946), songwriter and 12-string guitar specialist
* Beau (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape ...
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Bow (disambiguation)
Bow often refers to:
* Bow and arrow, a weapon
* Bowing, bending the upper body as a social gesture
* An ornamental knot made of ribbon
Bow may also refer to:
* Bow (watercraft), the foremost part of a ship or boat
* Bow (position), the rower ...
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