PTO may stand for:

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Patent and Trademark Office (disambiguation) The Patent and Trademark Office may refer to any other patent office also handling trademarks, such as: * the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) * the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) * the Danish Patent and Trademark Offi ...

, a government office that handles the issuing of both patents and trademarks *

Parent teacher organization A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A ''biological parent'' is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male ...

, organization that consists of parents, teachers and school staff *

Peace Train Organisation The Peace Train Organisation was a campaign group set up in 1989 in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in response to the repeated bombing of the Dublin to Belfast railway line (see Enterprise (train)) by the Provisional IRA.

, a campaign group set up in response to the repeated bombing of the Dublin to Belfast railway line *

Professional Triathletes Organisation The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) is an organisation that represents non-drafting professional triathletes. Its mission is to professionalise and promote the sport of triathlon. The PTO is a hybrid of a not-for-profit organisation a ...

, an organisation that representing non-drafting professional triathletes * Public Telecommunications Operator, a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access

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* PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations, a war strategy simulation series by Koei based on the World War II events * "P:T:O:", a track from the 1977 Klaus Schulze album '' Body Love'' *

The Phantom of the Opera (adaptations) There have been many literary and dramatic works based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' ranging from stage musicals to films to children's books. Some well known stage and screen adaptations of the novel are the 1925 fil ...

, ''The Phantom of the Opera'' — the original novel or an adaptation (movie/musical/literature) or the Phantom character from any of these * ''

Please Turn Over ''Please Turn Over'' is a 1959 British comedy film written by Norman Hudis, produced by Peter Rogers and directed by Gerald Thomas. It featured Ted Ray, Julia Lockwood, Jean Kent, Joan Sims, Leslie Phillips, Charles Hawtrey, Lionel Jeffries ...

'', a 1959 British comedy film *

Promenade Theatre Orchestra Promenade Theatre Orchestra (PTO) was an English quartet founded by John White in 1969 and consisted of the composer/performers White, Christopher Hobbs, Alec Hill, and Hugh Shrapnel. Although not one of the Scratch Orchestra's so-called 'sub-g ...

, an English quartet founded in 1969

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* Pacific Theater of Operations, World War II *

Paid time off Paid time off, planned time off, or personal time off (PTO), is a policy in some employee handbooks that provides a bank of hours in which the employer pools sick days, vacation days, and personal days that allows employees to use as the need or ...

, time an employee can draw from to take time off from work, without having to specify a reason *

Parietal-temporal-occipital The parietal-temporal-occipital (PTO) association area is located in the cerebral cortex which is bounded by the anterior somatic association area and posterior visual cortex of the human brain. As its name implies, the PTO includes portions of t ...

association area, this association area is responsible for the assembly of auditory,

visual The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (th ...

, and

somatosensory system In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch (haptic perception), as well as temperature (thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It ...

information *

Peeled tail-on shrimp Shrimp are marketed and commercialised with several issues in mind. Most shrimp are sold frozen and marketed based on their categorisation of presentation, grading, colour, and uniformity. Presentation The main forms of presentation are ''he ...

* Permeability Tuned Oscillator is an electronic circuit whose resonant frequency is altered by moving a sintered iron powder core in and out of the tuning coil. *

Permission to officiate A permission to officiate (PTO), also known as a licence to officiate, is a concessionary ministry licence granted by an Anglican bishop. It is most commonly issued to a retired deacon, priest, or lay reader over the age of 70 years. It allows th ...

, a limited form of license to undertake ecclesiastical duties within the Church of England *

Phoenix Thunderbirds Open The Phoenix Thunderbirds Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1962 to 1965. It was played at two different courses in the Phoenix, Arizona area: Paradise Valley Country Club in 1962, Arizona Biltmore Country Club in 1963 to 1965. Winn ...

, a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1962 to 1965 *''Please Turn Over'', used on a printed document to tell reader to turn over and continue reading * Power take-off, a splined driveshaft, usually on a tractor or truck, that can be used to provide power to an attachment or separate machine * Professional tryout, a type of contract in professional ice hockey * pto, ISO 639-3 language code for the

Zo'é language Zo'é (Jo'é) is spoken by the indigenous Zo'é people of Pará, Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with ov ...

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