STO may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Government

* Science & Technology Organization, a NATO organization * ''

Service du travail obligatoire The ' ( en, Compulsory Work Service; STO) was the forced enlistment and deportation of hundreds of thousands of French workers to Nazi Germany to work as forced labour for the German war effort during World War II. The STO was created under law ...

'', French men & women between certain ages deported to Germany during WWII to work as slave labour *

Société de transport de l'Outaouais Société de transport de l'Outaouais (STO) is the transit service of the Outaouais region of Quebec. It operates conventional services and the Rapibus, a bus rapid transit service, in Gatineau, Quebec, including the districts of Hull, Aylmer, Ga ...

, a public transit operator in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada * Sojourner Truth Organization, a defunct American leftist group * Sovet Truda i Oborony (Совет труда и обороны):

Council of Labor and Defense The Council of Labor and Defense (Russian: Совет труда и обороны (СТО) Sovet Truda i Oborony, Latin acronym: STO), first established as the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense in November 1918, was an agency responsible fo ...

, a Soviet central planning agency of the 1920s * United States Air Force Special Tactics Officer

Non-governmental organizations

* State Trading Organization, a publicly owned Maldivian company * Statoil, a publicly traded Norwegian oil company

Science and technology

* Semi-automatic train operation *

Slater-type orbital Slater-type orbitals (STOs) are functions used as atomic orbitals in the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method. They are named after the physicist John C. Slater, who introduced them in 1930. They possess exponential deca ...

, atomic orbitals * STO-nG basis sets, of orbitals

Sports

* Space Tornado Ogawa, a professional wrestling throw *

SportsTime Ohio Bally Sports Great Lakes is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel, which is a sister network to Bally Sports Ohio, broadcasts statewide coverage of professiona ...

, a regional sports network in northeast Ohio, United States

Arts and entertainment

* Soldiers of the One, a group in the TV series '' Caprica'' * Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game * STO, a posture emoticon used for representing a great admiration or great despair, see Emoticon#Orz * Sto, pen name of illustrator

Sergio Tofano Sergio Tòfano (20 August 1886 – 28 October 1973) was an Italian actor, theatre director, director, playwright, scene designer and illustrator. Tofano was born in Rome. In 1909, he made his first appearance on stage with Ermete Novelli, t ...

Transport

* STO, the National Rail station code for

South Tottenham railway station South Tottenham is a railway station on the east–west Gospel Oak to Barking Line of the London Overground. It is located on the eastern side of the north–south A10 High Road in Tottenham, North London, from (measured via Kentish Town an ...

, London, England * The airports of Stockholm, Sweden, by IATA code

Other uses

Safe Torque Off The Safe Torque Off (STO) is an electronic signal used in industrial motor controller A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor. A motor controller might i ...

, an electronic signal used in industrial drives for safety function *

Security token offering A security token offering (STO) / tokenized IPO is a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, known as security tokens, are sold in security token exchanges. Tokens can be used to trade real financial assets such as equitie ...

, a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, are sold in cryptocurrency exchanges *

Stø Stø is a fishing village located on the northern tip of the island of Langøya, along the Gavlfjorden in the Vesterålen archipelago. It is part of the municipality of Øksnes in Nordland county, Norway. In 2001, there were about 175 residents ...

, a village in Norway *

Stoney language Stoney—also called Nakota, Nakoda, Isga, and formerly Alberta Assiniboine—is a member of the Dakota subgroup of the Mississippi Valley grouping of the Siouan languages. The Dakotan languages constitute a dialect continuum consisting of Santee ...

(ISO 639-3 code) * STO (professional wrestling), a maneuver in professional wrestling