Dao (disambiguation)

Dao, Dão or DAO may refer to:


 * Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept
 * Dao (Chinese sword) (刀), a type of Chinese sword
 * Dao (Naga sword), a weapon and a tool of Naga people

People and language

 * Yao people, a minority ethnic group of Vietnam
 * Dao language (Papuan), Indonesia
 * Dao language (China)
 * Dao (surname) (Đào), a Vietnamese surname
 * Dao (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of genie in the game Dungeons & Dragons
 * Dão (footballer) (born 1984), Brazilian football defender

Places

 * Dao (country subdivision) (Dào), historical political divisions in China translated as "circuits"
 * Dao (state), a historical state during the Zhou dynasty
 * Dao, Capiz, Philippines
 * Dao County, in Yongzhou, Hunan, China
 * Dão DOC, a wine region in Portugal
 * Dão River, a river in Portugal

Biology

 * D-amino acid oxidase, a peroxisomal enzyme
 * Diamine oxidase, an enzyme, also known as histaminase, involved in the metabolism of histamine
 * D-aspartate oxidase, in enzymology
 * Dracontomelon dao, a species of tropical canopy tree known as dao in Filipino

Computing

 * Data access object, a design pattern used in object-oriented software engineering
 * Jet Data Access Objects, a general programming interface for database access on Microsoft Windows systems
 * Disk-at-Once, an optical disc recording mode
 * Decentralized autonomous organization, an organization that is run through rules encoded as computer programs called smart contracts

Other

 * De-asphalted oil, a crude oil refinery process stream
 * Double-action only, a type of trigger mechanism for handguns

Organizations

 * Decentralized autonomous organization, a type of organization
 * The DAO (organization), a former digital organization established in 2016
 * Defence Acquisition Organisation, the former name of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
 * Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
 * Daallo Airlines (ICAO code)

Arts and entertainment

 * Dao (film), a film by Tsui Hark
 * Dao (game), an abstract strategy game
 * DAO (album), a 1996 album by jazz saxophonist David S. Ware

Other uses

 * Defense Attaché Office, the office for military matters at embassies; for example see Embassy of the United States, Tel Aviv