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So, a common English conjunction and adverb, indicative of comparative degree

Comparative

In grammar, the comparative is the form of an adjective or adverb which denotes the degree or grade by which a person, thing, or other entity has a property or quality greater or less in extent than that of another, and is used in this context with a subordinating conjunction, such as than, as...as, etc....
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SO or S-o is a common acronym used to indicate Significant other

Significant other

Significant other is a gender-blind, Political correctness term to refer to a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about their marital status or sexual orientation....
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So, a common English conjunction and adverb, indicative of comparative degree

Comparative

Significant other

So (kana)
So (kana)

?, in hiragana, or ?, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one Mora . Both represent .Stroke order...
, the romanisation of the Japanese kana ? and ?
Somalia
Somalia

Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....
, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
Somali language
Somali language

Somali is a member of the East Cushitic languages branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family spoken by Somali people in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen and Kenya, as well as by the Somali diaspora around the world?an estimated total population of between 10 and 16 million speakers....
, (ISO 639)

.so
.so

.so is the Internet country code top-level domain for Somalia.Somalia currently does not have a recognized central government; the operations of this domain had therefore been officially delegated to ml.org, a company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, which is now defunct....
, the top-level Internet domain of Somalia

Special Olympics
Special Olympics

Special Olympics is an international organization created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence, social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment....
, an international organization created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence and social skills through sports training and competition
Sao civilisation
Sao civilisation

The Sao or So were an African civilization that flourished from ca. the 6th century to as late as the 15th century. The Sao lived by the Chari River south of Lake Chad in territory that would later be part of Cameroon and Chad....
or So, an African civilisation that flourished from ca. the 6th century to ca. 15th century

In business:

Sales order
Sales Order

The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an Order received by a business from a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services....
, an order received by a business from a customer
Sosoliso Airlines
Sosoliso Airlines

Sosoliso Airlines was a scheduled, domestic, passenger airline based in Enugu in eastern Nigeria....
, IATA airline designator
Superior Aviation
Superior Aviation

Superior Aviation is an United States airline based in Lansing, Michigan, Michigan, United States. It was established in 1979 and operates scheduled passenger services, passenger and cargo charter flights and aircraft sales and maintenance....
, IATA airline designator
Southern Airways
Southern Airways

Southern Airways was a regional airline operating in the United States from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979 when it was folded into Republic Airlines , which on 1 October 1986 became part of Northwest Airlines, which in 2008 became a part of Delta Air Lines....
, former IATA airline designator
Southern Company
Southern Company

Southern Company is a public utility holding company of primarily Electric utility in the southern United States. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is currently the 16th largest utility company in the world and the fourth largest in the U.S....
, stock ticker symbol
Standard Oil
Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant United States integrated petroleum producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as an Ohio Corporation, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations until it was broken up...
(1870-1911), a predominant integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company; dissolved by the US Supreme Court

In entertainment:

Sierra Oscar, the call sign used by police officers in ITV serial drama The Bill
The Bill

The Bill is a long-running United Kingdom television police procedural, named after a List of slang terms for police officers. It was first broadcast on 16 August, 1983 as a pilot episode, and as a regular series from 16 October, 1984 and transmitted on ITV, at 20:00 on Thursdays and most Wednesdays....
Star Ocean
Star Ocean

is a franchise of console role-playing game video games developed by tri-Ace and published by Square Enix ....
, a role-playing game series by Enix

In music:

So (album)
So (album)

So is the fifth studio album by United Kingdom rock music musician Peter Gabriel, released in 1986. Many of its songs reflect a more conventional pop-writing style and became radio hits, others still retain Gabriel's dark, brooding sense of experimentalism....
, a music album by Peter Gabriel
So (band)
So (band)

So are a duo from the late 1980s that featured Markus Bell and Mark Long, who were previously members of a band called The Opposition. The duo were managed by Steve Weltman of Esta Management, and were contemporaries of acts such as Climie Fisher, Blue and Waterfront ....
, a duo from the 80s formed by two members of The Opposition
Symphony orchestra, a type of orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
So the 5th note of the Solfege
Solfege

In music, solf?ge is a pedagogical solmization technique for the teaching of sight-singing in which each note of the score is sung to a special syllable, called a solf?ge syllable ....

In military and police:

SO10
SO10

SO10 was the Specialist Operations designation for the Metropolitan Police Service's Crime Operations Group.In essence, SO10 was the Metropolitan Police's undercover unit, providing specially-trained officers and resources for cases requiring covert policing and evidence gathering....
, former Specialist Operations designation for the Metropolitan Police's Crime Operations Group
SO11
SO11

SO11 or Specialist Operations - Intelligence is a defunct branch of Scotland Yard. This Unit was tasked with gathering Intelligence for the Police, much like a role of a "Spy" but in the police....
or Specialist Operations - Intelligence, a defunct branch of Scotland Yard
SO19 The Specialist Firearms Command of Scotland Yard, now known as CO19
Special ops, another name for special forces
Special forces

Special Forces , also known as, Special Operation Forces is a generic term for highly-trained military teams/units that conduct specialized Military operation such as reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, and counter-terrorism actions....

In people:

So (surname), a Chinese surname

In places:

Canton of Solothurn
Canton of Solothurn

Solothurn is a Cantons of Switzerland of Switzerland. It is located in the northwest of Switzerland. The capital is Solothurn....
, Switzerland
County Sligo
County Sligo

County Sligo is a county in the provinces of Ireland of Connacht in the west of Republic of Ireland....
, Republic of Ireland

In science and technology:

SO
Small-Outline Integrated Circuit

A small-outline integrated circuit is a Surface-mount technology integrated circuit package which occupies an area about 30 - 50% less than an equivalent dual in-line package, with a typical thickness that is 70% less....
, SO alias for SOIC chip "package"
.so, a filename extension for "shared object" dynamic library files in Unix
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is a primarily United States elementary school, middle school, or high school team competition that requires knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability....
, a primarily American elementary, middle school, or high school team competition that requires knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability
Service cable/cord, Oil-resistant, a type of power cord
Power cord

For a musical note played on an electric guitar see Power chordA power cord, line cord, or mains cable is a cord or cable that temporarily connects an Small appliance to the distribution circuits of an electrical power source via a wall socket or extension cord....
Shift Out, an ASCII control character in computing
SO(4)
SO(4)

In mathematics, SO is the four-dimensional rotation group; that is, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space....
, in mathematics, the group of rotations about a fixed point in four-dimensional Euclidean space
SO(5)
SO(5)

In mathematics, SO, also denoted SO5 or SO, is the special orthogonal group of degree 5 over the field R of real numbers, i.e....
, in mathematics, the special orthogonal group of degree 5 over the field R of real numbers
SO(8)
SO(8)

In mathematics, SO is the special orthogonal group acting on eight-dimensional Euclidean space. It could be either a real or complex simple Lie group of rank 4 and dimension 28....
, in mathematics, the special orthogonal group acting on eight-dimensional Euclidean space
SO(10) (physics)
SO(10) (physics)

In particle physics, one of the grand unified theory is based on the special orthogonal group Lie group. Before Georgi-Glashow model, Howard Georgi found that all the matter contents are incorporated into a single representation, spinorial 16 of SO....
, in particle physics, one of the grand unified theories (GUT) is based on the SO(10) Lie group
Special orthogonal group, a subset of an orthogonal group
Orthogonal group

In mathematics, the orthogonal group of degree n over a field F is the group of n-by-n orthogonal matrix with entries from F, with the group operation that of matrix multiplication....
StarOffice
StarOffice

StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' proprietary software office suite Computer software. It was originally developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun in August 1999....
, a commercial package of office software produced by Sun Microsystems
Sulfur monoxide
Sulfur monoxide

Sulfur monoxide is a chemical compound with chemical formula and CAS number 13827-32-2. It is an unstable Chemical species only found in the gas phase where it is in equilibrium with a dimeric form, S2O2 which can be represented as OSSO....
, a compound with the chemical formula SO

In sports:

So Taguchi
So Taguchi

is an outfielder for the Chicago Cubs....
, MLB baseballplayer
Strikeout
Strikeout

In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike out occurs when a batter receives three strike during his time at bat. Strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher , although it is recognized that the style of swing that generates home runs also leaves the batter somewhat susceptible to striking out....
, official abbreviation, but more often abbreviated as K

In other:

SO, Sony
Sony

is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
or Sony Ericsson's mobile phones of NTT DoCoMo in Japan

SO

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