Ho \Ho\, pron.
   Who. [Obs.]

   Note: In some Chaucer MSS. Ho

	

	Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\, n. [See Ho, interj., 2.]
   A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
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         There is no ho with them.                --Decker.

	

	Ho \Ho\, prop. n. (Chem.)
   The chemical symbol for Holmium.
   [PJC] Ho

	

	Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\ (h[=o]), interj. [Cf. F. & G. ho.]
   1. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give
      notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" --Shak. "Ho!
      who's within?" --Shak.
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   2. [Perhaps corrupted fr. hold; but cf. F. hau stop! and E.
      whoa.] Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by
      teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of
      anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.]
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            The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!"
                                                  --Chaucer.
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            An herald on a scaffold made an hoo.  --Chaucer.
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	Hydroxyl \Hy*drox"yl\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + oxygen + -yl.] (Chem.)
   A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of
   one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a
   characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen
   acids, etc.
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	Ho
    n 1: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group;
         occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic
         compounds [syn: holmium, Ho, atomic number 67]

	

	handover
handoff
HO

    (HO, or "handoff") the mechanism by which an
   on going cellular connection between a mobile terminal (MT,
   typically a mobile phone) or mobile host (MH) and a
   corresponding terminal or host is transferred from one point
   of access of the fixed network to another.

   Handover may occur because the phone is leaving its current
   cell, to balance demand between cells, to reduce interference
   or to transfer a user who has stopped moving to a nearby cell
   with shorter range.

   (2010-05-07)