DTO
Noun
Meaning
(software) Initialism of Data Transfer Object.
(transport, train) Initialism of Director of Train Operations.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
According to police, Wade, allegedly a ranking member of the Sex Money Murder (SMM) subset of the Bloods street gang, is a leader of the drug trafficking organization DTO.
In cases where pharmacists have misinterpreted DTO to mean "deodorized tincture of opium" when "diluted tincture of opium" was meant, infants have received a massive 25-fold overdose of morphine, sometimes resulting in fatalities.
The United States Pharmacopeia and FDA recommend that practitioners refrain from using DTO in prescriptions, given this potential for confusion.
Using something like Automapper, you take your entities from your domain model and DTO them into ViewModels, sculpted specifically for use by the view.