POC
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Business

  • Paid Outside Closing
    Paid Outside Closing
    Paid Outside Closing or POC is a term used to describe fees or payments rendered outside of normal title insurance and underwriting fees due at the time of closing a loan. When acquiring a mortgage or refinancing, a lender or broker may show that an appraisal fee is POC because the fee is usually...

    , monies paid in real estate transactions not included in calculations to borrower or seller
  • Percentage of Completion, a method of work in progress evaluation
  • Production Office Coordinator, a position in film and television production
  • Point of contact
    Point of contact
    A Point of Contact is the identification of, and means of communication with, person and organizations associated with the resource...

    , or single point of contact (SPOC), the single person or department used for communication with an organization, activity, or program
  • Proof of Concept
    Proof of concept
    A proof of concept or a proof of principle is a realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory that has the potential of being used...

    , a test to prove something intended is actually possible, conceptually identical to the intended final product

Organizations

  • Philippine Olympic Committee
    Philippine Olympic Committee
    The Philippine Olympic Committee is the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines.-About the POC:The POC is a private, non-governmental organization composed of and serve as the mother organization of all National Sports Associations in the Philippines...

    , the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines
  • The "Professional Officer Course", a part of the United States Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
    Pirates of the Caribbean
    Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar Walt Disney franchise encompassing a series of films, a theme park ride, and spinoff novels as well as numerous video games and other publications. The franchise originates with the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, which opened at Disneyland in...

    , a Walt Disney entertainment franchise

Science, technology, and medicine

  • Poc. stands for Reginald Innes Pocock
    Reginald Innes Pocock
    Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed...

    , a British naturalist, in systematic species descriptions (e.g. Anoplodesmus anthracinus Poc., 1895)
  • Product of conception, a term for an embryo
    Embryo
    An embryo is a multicellular diploid eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or germination...

  • Proof of concept
    Proof of concept
    A proof of concept or a proof of principle is a realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory that has the potential of being used...

    , a term used in system development to prove the viability of a potential system
  • Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC), a variant of Push to Talk (PTT)
  • Picture order count, which defines the decoding order of fields/frames in the H.264 video standard
  • Portable oxygen concentrator
    Portable oxygen concentrator
    Portable oxygen concentrator is a portable device used to provide oxygen therapy to a patient at substantially higher concentrations than the levels of ambient air. It is very similar to a home oxygen concentrator, but it smaller in size and more mobile...

    , a medical oxygen source designed for use while traveling
  • Particulate organic carbon, carbon in water removable by filtering, as opposed to dissolved organic carbon, see total organic carbon
    Total organic carbon
    Total organic carbon is the amount of carbon bound in an organic compound and is often used as a non-specific indicator of water quality or cleanliness of pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment....

  • Polycarbonate
    Polycarbonate
    PolycarbonatePhysical PropertiesDensity 1.20–1.22 g/cm3Abbe number 34.0Refractive index 1.584–1.586FlammabilityV0-V2Limiting oxygen index25–27%Water absorption – Equilibrium0.16–0.35%Water absorption – over 24 hours0.1%...

    , a particular group of thermoplastic polymers, trademarked as Lexan

Other uses

  • Person of color
    Person of color
    Person of color is a term used, primarily in the United States, to describe all people who are not white. The term is meant to be inclusive among non-white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism...

    , a term for causes relating to black people, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, or any ethnic or racial group other than white Europeans
  • Prisoner of conscience
    Prisoner of conscience
    Prisoner of conscience is a term defined in Peter Benenson's 1961 article "The Forgotten Prisoners" often used by the human rights group Amnesty International. It can refer to anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, or political views...

    , a term used by Amnesty International
  • Piece of Cake
    Piece of Cake
    A piece of cake literally refers to a slice of cake. Idiomatically, the phrase refers to a job, task or other activity that is considered pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple.Piece of Cake may also refer to:...

    , a common abbreviation
  • Proto Oceanic (POc), the protolanguage ancestral to Oceanic languages
  • Point of Comparison
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