POC most commonly refers to:

  • Person of color or people of color
  • Proof of concept, used to demonstrate the feasibility of an idea
  • Point of contact, in an organization

POC, PoC, P.O.C. or POc may also refer to:

Business

  • Paid outside closing, money paid in real estate transactions not included in calculations
  • Percentage-of-completion method, a work-in-progress evaluation
  • Production office coordinator, in film and television production

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Medicine

  • Point of care, designating a service or product given at a medical-services facility
  • Portable oxygen concentrator, a medical oxygen source
  • Products of conception, tissue resulting from the union of an egg and sperm

Organizations and companies

  • Philippine Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines
  • Professional Officer Course, of the US Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program
  • Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in the United States, a splinter of the Communist Party USA

Science and technology

  • Particulate organic carbon, carbon particles too large to pass through a filter
  • Power over Cable, often used in the media/AV field with HDBaseT devices
  • Products of combustion, the chemicals formed by burning materials in oxygen
  • Proof-of-capacity, an algorithm used to mine the Burstcoin digital cryptocurrency
  • Proto-Oceanic language (POc), the protolanguage ancestral to the Oceanic languages
  • Push to talk over cellular (PoC), a service to use a cellphone as walkie-talkie

Other uses

  • Atitlán grebe, an extinct water bird, also known as a poc
  • Brackett Field, a public airport a mile (2 km) southwest of La Verne, California; IATA airport code POC

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  • Prisoner of conscience, anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views
  • Pakistan Origin Card, issued to persons of Pakistani origin
  • Pondok Cina railway station, a railway station in Depok, Indonesia

See also

  • Pock, a surname
  • Pok (disambiguation)