SCO

SCO may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• Scottish Chamber Orchestra
• Singapore Chinese Orchestra
• Single Cell Orchestra

Businesses and organizations

• Santa Cruz Operation, a company founded in 1979 that existed under that name until 2001
• SCO Group, a software company formerly called Caldera International and Caldera Systems
  • SCO OpenServer (formerly SCO Unix), an operating system made by the above companies
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a Eurasian inter-governmental organisation
• Society of Canadian Ornithologists
• Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee
• Special Communications Organization, a Pakistani telecommunication company
• SCORM, an organization of web-based courseware

Places

• Scotland (country code SCO)
  • .sco, proposed national internet TLD for Scotland
• Aktau Airport in Kazakhstan (IATA code SCO)

In science and technology

• Scorpius, abbreviation for the constellation
• Self-checkout machines, automated alternatives to traditional cashier-staffed checkout at retailers
• Synchronous Connection Oriented protocol, used for audio devices in the Bluetooth protocol stack
• Synthetic crude oil, a type of crude oil
• Single cell oil, a type of oil produced by a microbe

Other uses

• Scots language (ISO 639 alpha-3 code: sco)
• Angers SCO, a French football club
• Selected Characteristics of Occupations, a companion volume to the U.S. Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles
• Syllabus, or Standard Course Outline