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Dao or Dão may refer to:
- Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept (cf. Taoism)
- Dao (state), a historical state during the Zhou Dynasty
- Dao (political) (Dào), historical political divisions in China translated as "circuits"
- Dao (game), an abstract strategy game
- DAO (album), a 1996 album by jazz saxophonist David S. Ware
- Dao (sword) 刀, a type of Chinese sword
- Dao (film), a film by Tsui Hark
- Dracontomelon dao, a species of tropical canopy tree known as dao in Filipino
- Yao people, a minority ethnic group of Vietnam
- 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, Capiz, Philippines
- Dao County, in Yongzhou, Hunan, China
- Dão-Lafões Subregion, a region in Portugal
- Dão DOC, a Portuguese wine region
- Rio Dão, a river in Portugal
- Barangay Dau, a village in Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines
Organizations
- The DAO (organization), a digital organization established in April 2016
DAO or D.A.O. may stand for:
- D-amino acid oxidase, a peroxisomal enzyme
- 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
- De-asphalted oil, a crude oil refinery process stream
- Defence Acquisition Organisation, the former name of the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation
- Defense Attaché Office (see military attaché), the office for military matters at embassies
- Diamine oxidase, an enzyme involved in the metabolism of histamine
- Distributed autonomous organization, an organization instantiated by a set of set of business rules, typically implemented as publicly-auditable open-source software distributed across a mesh-network of computers that each have a small stake in the outcome
- Decentralized autonomous organization, a self-governing organization under the control of an incorruptible set of business rules
- Disk-at-Once, a recording mode for optical discs
- Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
- Double action only, a trigger mechanism for semi-automatic firearms
- Dragon Age: Origins, a 2009 video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts
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