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'''GEO''' or '''Geo''' may refer to any of the following:
In computational & scientific use:
* [[GEO (magazine)]], a popular scientific magazine
* [[GEO 600]], a detector for gravitational radiation
* [[Global Environment Outlook]], an environmental assessment produced by the United Nations
* [[Geo (microformat)]], a microformat for marking up WSG84 geographical coordinates in (X)HTML
* [[Gene Expression Omnibus]], a [[National Center for Biotechnology Information]] database for gene expression
In commercial use:
* [[Geo (marketing)]], a discipline within marketing analysis
* [[Geo TV]], a leading television channel in [[Pakistan]]
* [[Geo (automobile)]], a defunct brand of entry-level cars produced by General Motors
People:
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* '''Geo.''' is sometimes an abbreviation of the name [[George]].
* Geo, the composer for the J-pop group [[Sweetbox]]
* [[Geo (artist)]], the Korean [[manhwa]] artist.
* [[Geo Bogza]], a [[Romania]]n poet and essayist.
* [[Geo Stelar]] is the main protagonist in [[Mega Man Star Force]].
As a group:
* ''[[Grupo Especial de Operaciones]]'', a division of the Spanish police
* General Education Officer, the basic rank of teachers of the [[Education in Singapore|Ministry of Education in Singapore]]
* [[Group on Earth Observations]], an intergovernmental organization
As a place:
* GEO, the IATA code for [[Cheddi Jagan International Airport]]
* [[Estadio Casas GEO]], stadium in Mexicali, Mexico
* [[GEO (landscape)|Geo or gio]], is a creek (inlet) or gulley in the [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] Islands
As a prefix: '''geo-''' is taken from the Greek word γη or γαια meaning "earth", usually in the sense of "ground or land". ''Geo-'' is thus a prefix for many words dealing in some way with the earth, including:
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* [[Geography]], the study of the Earth and its features
** [[Geology]], the study of the Earth's structure
** [[Geopolitics]], the analysis of history, geography and social science with respect to international politics
** [[Geodesy]], also known as geodetics, the study of the measurement and representation of the earth
* [[Geothermal (geology)]], heat sources from within the Earth
** [[Geo-exchange]], a heating and cooling system
* [[Geometry]], the study of spatial relationships
** [[Geocentric]], a model of the universe that places the earth at its centre
*** [[Geostationary orbit]], a circular orbit directly above the earth's equator
*** [[Geosynchronous orbit]], an orbit that has the same period as the Earth's sidereal rotation
* [[Geocaching]], an outdoor activity that involves using navigational techniques to finds geocaches
* [[Geocoding]] or [[GeoTagging]], encoding coordinates in to features, images, web ages and other data records
** [[Geolocation]], the science of determining the real-world location of a website or website visitor
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