POD

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POD may refer to:

Business

• Payable on Death, term used on certain bank accounts or Totten trusts, where payment is made to specified person upon account holder's death
• 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
• See Moving company for Portable On Demand Storage, a portable storage unit

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
• Point of Delivery, a module or group of network, compute, storage, and application components that work together to deliver a network service
• Power On Diagnostics, the start up sequence of computers before the Operating system is loaded. Invoked as a part of BIOS or PROM
• Python Open Document

Entertainment

• POD - Planet of Death, a pc game released in 1997 by Ubisoft
• POD 2: Multiplayer Online/POD: Speedzone, a video game released in 2000 by Ubisoft
• The Path of Daggers, the eighth book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, a rock musical starring Tenacious D
  • The Pick of Destiny, the soundtrack album
  • "POD" (song), a song on the album
• 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
• Pod, a short user-created non-fiction video or documentary aired by Current TV
• EVA Pod, a fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Pod, A fictional organic gaming console featured in the movie eXistenZ
• Pod, The growth medium for the replacements in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• POD - the Personal Overhaul Device on Snog Marry Avoid?
• Prince of Darkness .. An appellation claimed by Ozzy Osbourne and Gus S. Calabrese .. also refers to SayaGuma ( japanese: PODbear )

Mathematics

• Proper Orthogonal Decomposition or Principal components analysis, a method for obtaining approximate descriptions of multidimensional systems in statistics
• Probability of Detection, a nondestructive testing term

Medicine

• Pouch of Douglas or rectouterine pouch, an extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus

Music

• Pod (Afro Celt Sound System album), a 2004 album
• Pod (album), a rock album by The Breeders
• The Pod, a 1991 album by Ween
• P.O.D. an American alternative metal band from San Diego, California
• Pod (amp modeler), POD 2.0, FloorPOD and PODxt line of guitar amp modelers by Line 6

Technology

• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent
• Pod, a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
• Pod, a method of propulsion for ships also known as an Azimuth thruster
• iPod, a portable media player designed by Apple Inc.
• Portable device, sometimes referred to as "pod," a partial backronym constructed from digital media similar to the iPod

Other

• Pod, the Seedpod of a flowering plant
• Pod, a social group of cetaceas (whales, porpoises, dolphins, etc.)
• Cephalopod
• Coffee pod
• Orthotube, a door-like security device seen in the BBC television series Spooks
• Point of divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline
• Post Office Department of the United States
• Picture Of the Day

See also

• PODS

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