Pom
Encyclopedia
Business
- Pepco HoldingsPepco HoldingsPepco Holdings, Inc. is a holding company incorporated in February of 2001 for the purpose of effecting the acquisition of Conectiv Power Delivery by Potomac Electric Power Company . The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2002 at which time Pepco and Conectiv became wholly owned subsidiaries...
, the stock symbol for Pepco Holdings, Inc. - Production and Operations ManagementProduction and Operations ManagementProduction and Operations Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management....
Food and beverages
- POM WonderfulPOM WonderfulPOM Wonderful, LLC is a privately owned company which markets an eponymous brand of beverages and fruit extracts. It was founded in 2002 by the billionaire industrial agriculture couple Stewart and Lynda Rae Resnick. They are also affiliated with the companies Teleflora, FIJI Water, pesticide...
, a brand of pomegranate juice - Pom (dish)Pom (dish)Pom is a Surinamese-Jewish oven dish.Within the Surinamese community, in both Surinam and The Netherlands, Pom is the most popular and best known festive dish. From 1667 until 1975, Surinam was a Dutch colony, during this period the country became a melting pot of cultures and religions...
, a taro like root based oven dish native to Suriname
Astronomy
- Phase of Moon, or lunar phaseLunar phaseA lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun...
, the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon
Chemistry
- PivaloyloxymethylPivaloyloxymethylPivaloyloxymethyl is a protecting group used in organic synthesis. The POM radical has the formula 3C-CO-O-CH2.The POM group is also sometimes used to produce prodrugs...
, the (CH3)3C-CO-O-CH2- functional group in organic chemistry - PolyoxometalatePolyoxometalateIn chemistry, a polyoxometalate is a polyatomic ion, usually an anion, that consists of three or more transition metal oxyanions linked together by shared oxygen atoms to form a large, closed 3-dimensional framework....
, a type of inorganic compound used as catalysts - PolyoxymethylenePolyoxymethylenePolyoxymethylene , also known as acetal, polyacetal, and polyformaldehyde, is an engineering thermoplastic used in precision parts that require high stiffness, low friction and excellent dimensional stability....
, a common plastic polymer
Ecology
- Particulate organic matter of biological origin that is suspended in water (lakes, rivers, oceans)
Medicine
- Prescription-only medicine, a medicine that requires a prescription
Computers
- Parallax occlusion mappingParallax occlusion mappingParallax occlusion mapping is an enhancement of the parallax mapping technique. Parallax occlusion mapping is used to procedurally create 3D definition in textured surfaces, using a displacement map instead of through the generation of new geometry...
(computer graphics), a method to add 3D complexity to textures - Probabilistic Ontology Model, a method for ontology learning, see KAONKAONKAON is an ontology infrastructure developed by the University of Karlsruhe and the Research Center for Information Technologies in Karlsruhe....
- Project Object Model, the central construct of the Apache Maven build management system
Television, film, music
- Baby Pom, the youngest of the Fimbles in the CBeebies television programme
- Piece of MindPiece of MindPiece of Mind is the fourth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was originally released in 1983 on EMI, and on Capitol in the US; it was reissued later on Sanctuary/Columbia Records...
, an album of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden - Puddle of MuddPuddle of MuddPuddle Of Mudd is an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. To date the band has sold over 7 million albums, and have had a string of #1 mainstream rock singles in the United States. Their major-label debut Come Clean has sold over 5 million copies...
, an American hard rock band - The Penguins of MadagascarThe Penguins of MadagascarThe Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper , Kowalski , Private , and Rico ; the lemurs King Julien , Maurice , and Mort...
, animated TV show - Piece of MePiece of Me"Piece of Me" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears from her fifth studio album, Blackout. It was released on November 27, 2007 by Jive Records as the second single from the album...
, Britney Spears song from the album Blackout
Places
- Port Moresby Airport, IATA code
- Presidio of Monterey, CaliforniaPresidio of Monterey, CaliforniaThe Presidio of Monterey, located in Monterey, California, is an active US Army installation with historic ties to the Spanish colonial era. Currently it is the home of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center .-Spanish fort:...
, an active US Army installation located in Monterey
Publications
- PlayStation: The Official MagazinePlayStation: The Official MagazinePlayStation: The Official Magazine is a magazine originally known as PlayStation Magazine . After Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine was canceled, Sony Computer Entertainment announced on October 1, 2007 that PSM would become "PlayStation: The Official Magazine"...
, a video game magazine - Pom (comics)Pom (comics)Jozef Van Hove, better known as Pom, is a Belgian comics writer and artist, mainly known for the comic strip Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber published in Gazet van Antwerpen. Pom was one of the best known Flemish comics authors of the 1950s. Between 1955 and 1995, 45 comic books were published of his...
, a Belgian comic strip writer and artist
Words for people
- Pom, a slang term for a British person
External links
- POM, a brand of instant mashed potato sold in the 1940s