Classical Mythology. a woman who, being loved by Zeus, was transformed into a white heifer and was, at the wish of Hera, first guarded by Argus and later pursued through the world by a gadfly until she reached Egypt, where she resumed her true shape: identified by the Egyptians with Isis.
Astronomy. a large volcanically active moon of the planet Jupiter.
One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the fifth in distance from the planet. It was first sighted by Galileo.
See Note at moon
From Hawaiian ʿio
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OpenAI made the io acquisition—revealing its intention to wean consumers off smartphone screens—a year after announcing a partnership with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into some parts of the iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Tan spent 24 years at Apple, most recently as vice president of product design for the iPhone and Apple Watch, before co-founding io Products, which OpenAI acquired for roughly $6.5 billion in 2025.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Along with OpenAI, Apple is suing io Products, the design startup founded by Jony Ive, a long-time Apple executive.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Tan left Apple to found io Products alongside Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief design officer, and other leaders.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wasn't quite midday so the heat wasn’t overbearing and there weren’t no heat waves across the fields io make the eye see things funny.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
“Juno had two really close flybys of Io during Juno’s extended mission,” Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, the mission’s principal investigator, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
The spacecraft produced the first high-resolution images of the four planets, the rings of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, lightning on Jupiter and lava lakes that revealed active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
This is the highest resolution image of Io ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
“This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io on steroids,” Kane said in a statement about TOI-6713.01.
From Salon ● May 14, 2024
The great volcanic plumes of Io reach so high that they are close to injecting their atoms directly into the space around Jupiter.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
They are, however, frequently abbreviated thus: Iowa, Ia. or Io.;
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd
The I/O event was “almost entirely commercially driven,” according to Windsor.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
The order is for production of wafer-level test and burn-in of silicon photonics integrated circuits, used in data center optical interconnects and emerging optical I/O architectures for AI processors, according to Aehr.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai lauded a Gemini win on stage at Google’s I/O conference last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Next month, it’ll kick off its always-exciting Worldwide Developers Conference, likely with as many A.I. mentions as Google’s recent I/O had, if not more.
From Slate ● May 24, 2024
VM/CMS officially supports a whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual printers, and other phantom devices; these are used to supply some of the same capabilities Unix gets from pipes and I/O redirection.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
The senior coalition officer said the insurgents who supported the Qatar process “didn’t do a good I.O. campaign to sell it to their people.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2012
Between A. F. of L. and C. I.O. there still exists a thin, technical tie: the rebellious C. I. O. unions were suspended last year but they have not yet been expelled.
From Time Magazine Archive
To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Green next day notified the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress that it must expel 30,000 C. I.O. members or renounce 120,000 A. F. of L. members.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Reckon on the fingers of your mind the reprimands, deductions, parietals, and privates in store for you."—Oration before H.L. of I.O. of O.F.,
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
Preparations are under way to repatriate the remains of two teenagers from Dublin who died in separate incidents on the Greek island of Ios over the weekend.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out on Tuesday on two teenagers from Dublin who died on the Greek island of Ios.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2023
Santorini, Mykonos and Ios, Greek islands known for their party scenes, now offer relaxing alternatives.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
In October, they interrogated a submarine cable that connects the islands of Santorini and Ios.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 8, 2021
The answer is ‘Certainly;’ and Trygæus points out the star into which Ios of Chios has just been metamorphosed.
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
This week the app overtook WeChat and TikTok to become the most-downloaded app for Apple and ios devices in China, though its popularity is not entirely due to merit.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2019
There are a lot of closeups and difficult-to-decipher geometry, but the intent here is clear — Sony is ios going to show us what the PS4 actually looks like.
From Forbes ● May 20, 2013
Android is much better, in my opinion, because it is not afraid to make drastic changes to its system. ios has looked similar since the start.
From Time ● Apr. 21, 2013
The price is 28,000 10000 in fives and ios 18000 50 and zoos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the brooding golden backlighting that makes theaters out of Parrish's scenar ios bespeaks a pre-neon sensibility.
From Time Magazine Archive
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