Po

PO is an acronym or abbreviation which may stand for:

• Post office
• A place:
  • Pau, France
  • Paul Orndorff
  • Pô, a town in Burkina Faso
  • Po, Asturias or Poo (until 2005), a parish of Llanes municipality, in Asturias, Spain
  • Po River, in Italy
  • Po River (Virginia), in the U.S. state of Virginia
  • Portugal: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code digram
  • PO postcode area centred on Portsmouth in the UK
• In Armed services:
  • Petty Officer, a Non-Commissioned Officer rank in many navies
  • Pilot Officer, a junior commissioned rank the British and many Commonwealth air forces
• In Aviation, Polar Air Cargo, IATA airline designator
• Petrol Ofisi, Turkish petroleum distribution company
• In domestic, 'Po' is short for Chamber pot.
• Pareto optimality
• Purchase order
• Principal Only, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation
• Perfect Orange, a third wave ska
• Po!, an indie band from Leicester
• Po (Teletubby), one of the Teletubbies
• Po, a character in the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda.
• In law:
  • Presiding Officer
  • Probation officer
• In Literature, Sally Po, a fictional character in the Anime series, "Gundam Wing"
• In medicine, per orem, literally "by mouth", a direction to take a medication by mouth, also: per os as above
• In philosophy, Provocative operation, coined by Edward De Bono and part of a Lateral thinking technique
• In politics:
  • Platforma Obywatelska, a Polish conservative-liberal party
  • Pô (département), part of the Napoleonic Empire
• In Science and Technology:
  • Pilkington Optronics, now Thales Optronics
  • Product Owner in the Scrum development process
  • Specimen code, collection of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
  • Petaoctet, a unit of information or computer storage
• In transportation, Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, an old railway created to link Paris to Orléans

Po may refer to:

• Polonium, a chemical element
• .po, an abbrevation of Portable Object and filename extension of text translation files used in software localization
• Po' boy (from "Poor Boy"), a type of submarine sandwich from New Orleans