POC

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

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
• 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
• Prisoner of conscience, anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views
• Pakistan Origin Card, issued to persons of Pakistani origin

See also

• Pock, a surname
• Pok (disambiguation)