Cao (bull)
Kao (Meitei language, Meitei pronunciation: /káo/) is a legendary Bull (mythology), divine bull captured by Khuman Khamba in Meitei mythology and Meitei folklore, folklore of ancient Moirang realm. It appears in the legend of ''Kao Phaba'' ( o ...
, a legendary bull in
Meitei mythology
Meitei mythology or Manipuri mythology ( mni, Meitei Mi Lai Tingi Wari) is a collection of myths, belonging to the religious and cultural traditions of the Meitei people, the predominant ethnic group of Manipur. It is associated with tradi ...
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Air China Cargo
Air China Cargo Co., Ltd. () is a cargo airline of the People's Republic of China with its headquarters in Shunyi District in Beijing. It is an all-cargo subsidiary of Air China and operates scheduled freighter services to 20 cities in 10 coun ...
, ICAO airline designator CAO
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CA Oradea
Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian Association football, football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV.
The team ...
, Romanian football club
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CA Osasuna
Club Atlético Osasuna (, ''Osasuna Athletic Club''), or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club in Pamplona, Navarre. Founded on 24 October 1920, the club currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at the 23,576-capacity El Sa ...
, Spanish football club
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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 ...
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Central Allocation Office
CAO Central Allocation Office GmbH was the joint auction office allocating cross border electricity transmission capacity for borders between Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. CAO acted as commission agent ...
Central Applications Office
The Central Applications Office (CAO) ( ga, An LárOifig Iontrála) is the organisation responsible for overseeing undergraduate applications to colleges and universities in the Republic of Ireland.
The primary mission of the Central Application ...
, Irish organisation that oversees college applications
* Civil Aviation Office of Poland
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*Chief Academic Officer of a University, often titled the Provost
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Chief accounting officer
The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...
of a company
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Chief administrative officer
A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-tier executive who supervises the daily operations of an organization and is ultimately responsible for its performance.
Government and non-profit
A CAO is responsible for administrative management of ...
of a company
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Chief analytics officer
Chief analytics officer (CAO) is a job title for the senior manager responsible for the analysis of data within an organization, such as a listed company or an educational institution. The CAO often reports to the chief executive officer.
This p ...
Cao (Chinese surname)
Cao is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (''Cáo''). It is listed 26th in the Song Dynasty, Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem. Cao is romanized as "Tsao" in Wade-Giles (Ts'ao), which is widely adopted in Taiwan, although the ...
(曹)
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Cao (Vietnamese surname) Cao is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Gao in Chinese and Go in Korean. It is unrelated to the Chinese surname Cao, which is transliterated as Tào in Vietnamese.
List of persons with the surname
* Cao Lỗ, weaponry engi ...
People
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Cao (footballer, born 1968)
Carlos Alberto Correia Fortes (born 20 October 1968), commonly known as Cao, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Cao was born in Praia, Cape Verde. After unsuccessfully emerging through FC Porto's ...
, Portuguese footballer
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Cao Cao
Cao Cao () (; 155 – 15 March 220), courtesy name Mengde (), was a Chinese statesman, warlord and poet. He was the penultimate Grand chancellor (China), grand chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty, and he amassed immense power in the End of ...
(died 220), founder of Cao Wei, China
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Cao Hamburger
Carlos Império Hamburger, better known as Cao Hamburger (; born 27 February 1962), is a Brazilian film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the creators of the ''Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum'' series of programs for children ...
(born 1962), Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer
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Cao Pi
Cao Pi () ( – 29 June 226), courtesy name Zihuan, was the first emperor of the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was the second son of Cao Cao, a warlord who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty, but the eldest son ...
(c.187–226), emperor of Cao Wei, China
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Cao Yu
Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 — December 13, 1996) was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important of the 20th century. His best-known works are ''Thunderstorm'' (1933), ''Sunrise'' (1936) and ''Peking Man'' (1940). ...
(1910–1996), Chinese playwright
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Cao Yupeng
Cao Yupeng (; born 27 October 1990) is a Chinese professional snooker player. He won the 2011 Asian Under-21 Championship, thus qualifying for the professional main tour for the 2011–12 season. In his first season on the circuit, he reached ...
(born 1990), Chinese snooker player
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Diogo Cão
Diogo Cão (; -1486), anglicised as Diogo Cam and also known as Diego Cam, was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery. He made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, explorin ...
, a 15th-century Portuguese explorer
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Joseph Cao
Ánh Quang "Joseph" Cao (, ; vi, Cao Quang Ánh; born March 13, 1967) is a Vietnamese–American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first Vietnamese American and first ...
(born 1967), United States politician
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Lady of Cao
The Lady of Cao is a name given to a female Moche mummy discovered at the archeological site El Brujo, which is located about 45 km north of Trujillo in the La Libertad Region of Peru.
Discovery
The Lady of Cao was discovered in 2006 by a ...
, a Moche mummy, Peru
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Longbing Cao
Longbing Cao (Chinese: 操龙兵; born in 1969) is an AI and data science researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His broad research interest involves artificial intelligence, data science, behavior informatics, and their ...
(born 1969), data scientist
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Cao (state)
The State of Cao () was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BC). The state was founded sometime in the 11th century BC by Cao Shu Zhenduo (曹叔振鐸; d. 1053 BC), a son of King Wen of Zhou and younger brother of King W ...
, a Chinese vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty (1046 - 221 BCE)
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Cao County
Cao County or Caoxian () is a county in Heze City in southwestern Shandong Province, China. It borders Henan Province to the west.
History
Bo, one of the capitals of the Shang dynasty, lay in what is now Cao .
Prior to the Boxer Rebellion, C ...
, also called Wei, one of the regimes that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period (220 - 280 CE)
Other uses
*CaO, the chemical symbol for
calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white, Caustic (substance), caustic, alkaline, crystalline solid at room temperature. The broadly used term "''lime (material), lime''" co ...
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Cão!
''Cão!'' was the first studio album by Portuguese rock music, rock band Ornatos Violeta, released on 15 September 1997 by Polygram. Three Single (music), singles were released from this album: "Punk Moda Funk", "A Dama do Sinal" and "Mata-me Outra ...
'', an album by Portuguese band Ornatos Violeta
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CA Osasuna
Club Atlético Osasuna (, ''Osasuna Athletic Club''), or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club in Pamplona, Navarre. Founded on 24 October 1920, the club currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at the 23,576-capacity El Sa ...
, a Spanish sport club
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Child Arrangement Order A Child Arrangement Order or Child Arrangements Order (CAO) is an agreement under English family law concerning where a child lives and whom a child can have contact with. CAOs are usually sought following the breakdown of a relationship and replac ...
under English family law
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Chlorophyllide-a oxygenase
Chlorophyllide-a oxygenase (), ''chlorophyllide a oxygenase'', ''chlorophyll-b synthase'', ''CAO'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''chlorophyllide-a:oxygen 7-oxidoreductase''. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reactions
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, an enzyme
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Cold air outbreak
A cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. National Weather Service, a cold wave is a rapid fall in tem ...
, an intense and/or prolonged cold weather wave of air
*Controller Access Object, as described in the
ORiN
ORiN (Open Robot/Resource interface for the Network) is a standard network interface for FA (factory automation) systems. The Japan Robot Association proposed ORiN in 2002, and the ORiN Forum develops and maintains the ORiN standard.
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