ASO

See also: aso, Aso, asó, áso, ašo, asó-, and ásó

English

Noun

ASO (countable and uncountable, plural ASOs)

1. Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O.

   Synonym: ASLO

2. Abbreviation of antisense oligonucleotide.
3. Initialism of app store optimization.

   Coordinate term: SEO

4. Initialism of AIDS service organization.
   • 1989 December 17, Steve Rose, “Over-Emphasis On Safer Sex Ed Among Gay White Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 4:

     The PEOPLE WITH AIDS who are the most important and needy clients of ASOs get shortchanged when education, "program development," and other such Volvo-era machinations suck up needed funding and energy.

   • 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10:

     To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.

Related terms

• (anti-streptolysin O): streptolysin
• (antisense oligonucleotide): antisense, oligonucleotide

Further reading

• Anti-streptolysin O on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• App store optimization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AOS, AOs, OAS, OSA, Oas, SAO, SOA, Sao, Soa, sao