What is "o"

O \O\ ([=o]), n.; pl. O's or Oes ([=o]z).

1. The letter O, or its sound. ``Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.''
   --Tennyson.

2. Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval. ``This wooden O [Globe Theater]''.
   --Shak.

3. A cipher; zero. [R.]

   Thou art an O without a figure.
   --Shak.

O \O\ ([=o]).

1. O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph[oe]nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. b[=a]n; E. stone, AS. st[=a]n; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d[=u]fe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre. [1913 Webster] The letter o has several vowel sounds, the principal of which are its long sound, as in bone, its short sound, as in nod, and the sounds heard in the words orb, son, do (feod), and wolf (book). In connection with the other vowels it forms several digraphs and diphthongs. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 107-129.

2. Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure. [1913 Webster] O was also anciently used to represent 11: with a dash over it ([=O]), 11,000.

O \O\ ([=o]), a. [See One.] One. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. ``Alle thre but o God.''
--Piers Plowman.

O \O\ ([=o]), interj. An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc.

For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
--Ps. cxix. 89.

O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day.
--Ps. cxix. 97.

Note: O is frequently followed by an ellipsis and that, an in expressing a wish: ``O [I wish] that Ishmael might live before thee!''
--Gen. xvii. 18; or in expressions of surprise, indignation, or regret: ``O [it is sad] that such eyes should e'er meet other object!''
--Sheridan Knowles.

Note: A distinction between the use of O and oh is insisted upon by some, namely, that O should be used only in direct address to a person or personified object, and should never be followed by the exclamation point, while Oh (or oh) should be used in exclamations where no direct appeal or address to an object is made, and may be followed by the exclamation point or not, according to the nature or construction of the sentence. Some insist that oh should be used only as an interjection expressing strong feeling. The form O, however, is, it seems, the one most commonly employed for both uses by modern writers and correctors for the press. ``O, I am slain!''
--Shak. ``O what a fair and ministering angel!'' ``O sweet angel !''
--Longfellow.

O for a kindling touch from that pure flame!
--Wordsworth.

But she is in her grave, -- and oh The difference to me!
--Wordsworth.

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness!
--Cowper.

We should distinguish between the sign of the vocative and the emotional interjection, writing O for the former, and oh for the latter.
--Earle.

O dear, & O dear me! [corrupted fr. F. O Dieu! or It. O Dio! O God! O Dio mio! O my God!
--Wyman.], exclamations expressive of various emotions, but usually promoted by surprise, consternation, grief, pain, etc.

blood type, 1926, originally "zero," denoting absence of A and B agglutinogens.

interjection of fear, surprise, admiration, etc.; see oh.

Etymology 1 letter (Latn-def en letter 15 o) n. 1 (Latn-def en name O o) 2 A zero (qualifier: used in reading out numbers). num. (Latn-def en ordinal 15 o) Etymology 2

a. over interj. 1 (context archaic always capitalized in modern usage English) The English vocative particle, used before a pronoun or the name of a person or persons to mark direct address. 2 (alternative form of oh English) n. 1 (context IRC English) operator 2 object, see SVO

O ( named o , plural oes) is the 15th letter and the second-to-last vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Ö

ö

Ö, or ö, is a character used in several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter O with umlaut to denote the front vowels or . In languages without umlaut, the character is also used as an "O with diaeresis" to denote a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified .

This character resembles a face (two eyes and an open mouth); and is often used as an emoticon to show disbelief or surprise.

Õ

õ

"Õ", or "õ" is a composition of the Latin letter O with the diacritic mark tilde.

The HTML entity is Õ for Õ and õ for õ.

Ò ò

Ò ò

Ò, ò ( o- grave) is a letter in Catalan, Emilian-Romagnol, Lombard, Occitan, Kashubian, Scottish Gaelic, Taos, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, and Welsh. It also appears in Italian as a variant of o.

Ó, ó ( o- acute) is a letter in the Emilian-Romagnol, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kashubian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian languages. This letter also appears in the Catalan, Irish, Occitan, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Galician languages as a variant of letter “o”. It is sometimes also used in English for loanwords.

O (О о; italics: О о) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

O commonly represents the close-mid back rounded vowel , like the pronunciation of in Scottish English "go".

O is a 2001 American drama film, and a loose modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, set in an American high school. It stars Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles and Josh Hartnett.

The film's intended release date was April 1999, but due to the Columbine High School massacre, the film was shelved for two years by its original distributor, Miramax Films. Ultimately, it was sold along with director Kevin Smith's film Dogma to Lionsgate. It was directed by Tim Blake Nelson and written by Brad Kaaya. It contains many different styles of music, ranging from rap to opera. It was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina.

O is the debut studio album by Irish musician Damien Rice, originally released on 1 February 2002, in Ireland and in the United Kingdom. The album is dedicated to Rice's friend Mic Christopher, who died of a head injury in 2001.

Rice wanted to make the album without the backing of a major record label, believing if he signed such a deal it would compromise his future work, forcing him to move in directions he did not wish to.

The video for the song "Volcano" charted in the United States on VH1's Top 20 Video countdown in October 2003.

O or Oh is a romanization of a number of East Asian surnames.

O is the Grammy nominated debut studio album by American R&B singer Omarion, released on February 22, 2005 via Epic Records. Despite featuring explicit language, the album doesn't have a Parental Advisory label on the cover. It features three singles: the O (number 27), " Touch" (number 94) and " I'm Tryna." The album entered at number 1, and has sold 758,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008. O went on to be certified gold by the RIAA and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 48th Grammy Awards.

O is a water-themed stage production by Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian circus and entertainment company. The show has been in permanent residence at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, since October 1998. O, whose name is pronounced the same way as eau, the French word for "water", takes place in, around and above a pool of water, featuring water acts such as synchronized swimming as well as aerial and ground acts. The O theatre, which is designed to resemble a 14th-century European opera house, has 1,800 seats, thus allowing the performance to be watched by 3,600 people a night since the performance usually plays twice in a given day, also designed to meet the special demands of the show.

O was inspired by the "infinity and elegance of water's pure form," which pays tribute to the beauty of the theater. A group of 150 stage technicians assist in the production of the show, the cast of which is 85 performers: international acrobats, synchronized swimmers, and divers. Some of them are former Olympic athletes.

In mathematics, O(n) may refer to:

• O(n), the orthogonal group
• Big O notation, indicating the order of growth of some quantity as a function of n, e.g. in Computational complexity theory

Ơ is one of the 12 Vietnamese language vowels. It is pronounced (an unrounded [o]).

As with most special Vietnamese letters, this letter is not well-supported by fonts and is often typed as either o+ or o*. The VIQR standard is o+.

On the Windows default Vietnamese keyboard Ơ can be found on where the ] key is on a US English keyboard layout.

Because Vietnamese is a tonal language this letter may optionally have any one of the 5 tonal symbols above or below it.

• Ờ ờ
• Ớ ớ
• Ở ở
• Ỡ ỡ
• Ợ ợ

O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

O may also refer to:

O is the first full-length album from Eiko Shimamiya, it includes the hit single Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (opening from the same-titled anime). A limited edition with a DVD including the music video of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is available. The album charted for five weeks on the Oricon charts and sold 10,000 copies.

o is Tilly and the Wall's third studio album, released on June 17, 2008 through Team Love Records. The album was engineered and produced by Mike Mogis.

The album was released on August 30, 2008 in Australia by Dew Process.

In Japanese writing, the kana お ( hiragana) and オ ( katakana) occupy the fifth place, between え and か, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupy the 27th, between の and く. In the table at right (ordered by columns, from right to left), お lies in the first column (あ行, "column A") and the fifth row (お段, "row O"). Both represent .

Form

Rōmaji

Hiragana

Katakana

Normal a/i/u/e/o
(あ行 a-gyō)

O

お

オ

Ou
Ō

おう, おぅ
おお, おぉ
おー, お～

オウ, オゥ
オオ, オォ
オー, オ～

"O" is a song from American R&B singer Omarion. It was released on July 17, 2004 as the first single off his debut album of the same name. "O" was the first choice for Omarion's debut single in the UK and was picked over " Touch", which was the original choice for his first UK single. The song was Omarion's first hit as a solo artist, peaking at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at numbers 24 and 12 on the Mainstream Top 40 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts respectively. The song also charted in New Zealand and the UK, peaking at numbers 18 and 47 respectively. The song was also included on the 2005 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 18.

"O" (also known as "O (Fly On)") is a track recorded by British alternative rock band Coldplay for their sixth studio album Ghost Stories (2014). It appears as the ninth and final song on the album. It is divided in two different songs: "Fly On" (0:00–3:54) and "O" (6:18–7:47), in the standard edition of Ghost Stories between the two songs there are more than two minutes of silence while in the Target deluxe edition there is no silence. The song has charted in England and in France. A live version of the track recorded at the Royce Hall of Los Angeles appears in the Ghost Stories Live 2014.

The "O" is a gesture used predominantly at the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene, Oregon, United States, and at events in which the school's athletic teams, the Oregon Ducks, are taking part. The gesture, in which the forefinger and thumb of each hand are pressed together to form an "O" shape, is used to show support for the team. First used by University of Oregon band directors as a cue to indicate the song to be played, it gained its current meaning after a photograph of quarterback Joey Harrington appeared on the front page of The Oregonian making the "O" sign with his hands.

ㅗ is one of the Korean hangul. The Unicode for ㅗ is U+3151.