P.O.D.

Pod (noun)

Pod may refer to:

• A short (one to eight minute), user-created non-fiction video or documentary aired by Current TV
• The seed-case of a flowering plant
• A method of propulsion for ships also known as an Azimuth thruster
• A social group of cetaceans (whales, porpoises, dolphins, etc.)
• A Welsh poet whose real name is Arwel Roberts
• A shortened, affectionate term for a Podiatrist
• Planet of Death, a futuristic racing game
• Pod Racing Chassis, Late Model stock car chassis
• A device used for carrying spare ammunition in a game of paintball.
• A slang term meaning "passed overdose", made popular by the band Bone Thugs N Harmony.
• Pod, Pod 2.0, and Podxt line of guitar amp modellers by Line6
• Orthotube, a door-like security device seen in the BBC television series Spooks

In music

• P.O.D. or Payable on Death, Californian rap metal quartet
• Pod (Afro Celt Sound System album), a 2004 album
• Pod (album), a rock album by The Breeders
• The Pod, a 1991 album by Ween
• The Pick Of Destiny, An album by Tencious D
  • POD, a song on that album
• "Past Over-Dose", originally coined by rap group Bone Thugs N Harmony

In movies

• EVA Pod a fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• A fictional organic gaming console featured in the movie eXistenZ.
• The growth medium for the replacements in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)

POD

POD may refer to:

Technology

• POD (brand), a brand of digital amplifier and effects modelers
• Parachute Opening Device, a device that automatically opens a parachute at a certain height when the user doesn't open it manually
• Point of Deployment, in digital cable television, how functionality is added to set top boxes
• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent
• Preformed Offsite Design Systems, see Bathroom POD
• iPod, a device that plays digital music and video files which was designed by Apple Inc.

Computers

• Ping of death, a type of attack on a computer
• Plain Old Data Structures, a term for all data types from the C programming language in C++
• Plain Old Documentation, a platform-independent documentation tool for the computer language Perl
• Portable On Demand Storage, a portable storage unit

Culture

• The Path of Daggers, the eighth book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan
• Payable On Death (or "P.O.D."), a southern California-based rock band
• Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, a film, album and single by Tenacious D
• Planet of Death, a racing game which was one of the first games to use the MMX instruction set; also the name of a 1981 video game which was also known as Adventure A
• Power of Dreams, a Dublin-based pop/rock band

Business

• Payable on Death (finance), often used to describe a bank account that will be paid out to a beneficiary (e.g., "a POD account") or a mechanism of pension disbursement
• Port of discharge, a shipping term used to indicate the unloading port of a voyage of cargo
• Proof of delivery, an international commerce term for a signed document proving delivery
• Print on demand (also "publishing on demand"), published works not produced until a copy is ordered
• Point of decision

Other

• Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
• Point of divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline
• Prince of Darkness, a phrase with several meanings including Satan, the title of several works of art, and the nicknames of several people
• Pouch of Douglas, An extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus. The rectouterine pouch is called the pouch of Douglas after the Scottish anatomist James Douglas (1675-1742).
• Post operative day Number of days after a surgical procedure
• Proper orthogonal decomposition, in statistics, method for obtaining approximate descriptions of multidimensional systems
• Print on Demand, a printing technology in which a copy is not created until after an order is received.

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