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The three-letter abbreviation IMO may have several meanings, depending on context:
- Idiopathic Massive Osteolysis (Gorham's Disease)
- In my opinion – Internet slang
- Institute for Marketecology
- Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad, a challenge for students aged 11-16 organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
- International Maritime Organization
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- International Meteor Organization
- International Meteorological Organization
- International money order
- International Muslims Organization
- Independent Market Operator of Ontario, Canada
- Irish Medical Organisation (a labor union)
- Instituto de la Mujer Oaxaqueña
- Irongate Mail Order and industrial electronics company founded by Maurice Hatter based in London, UK
- In Memory Of
- IMO Independent Mobile
The word ‘Imo’, of which only the first letter is capital, may also refer to:
- Imo State, Nigeria
- The World War I-era Belgian-Relief ship Imo involved in a collision with the French munitions ship Mont Blanc in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, the result of which caused the Halifax Explosion.
- A Japanese language slur equivalent to "country bumpkin" (Lit. Potato)