Contents 1 Pod 1.1 Business 1.2 Computers 1.3 Culture 1.4 Medicine 1.5 Movies 1.6 Music 1.7 Technology 1.8 Other 2 See also

Pod

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POD may refer to:

Business

• Payable on Death account or Totten trust, a bank account that will be paid out to a beneficiary or a mechanism of pension disbursement
• 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

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
• 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

Culture

• P.O.D. or Payable on Death, Californian nu metal quartet
• 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
• P.O.D or Pot Overdose, Bone Thugs N Harmony, "Let's get POD"

• [P.O.D.]= Passed Out Drunk

Medicine

• Postoperative Discitis, often seen after Lumbar discectomy.

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
• Bone Thugs N Harmony

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

Technology

• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent

Other

• The seed-case of a flowering plant
• A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
• A method of propulsion for ships also known as an Azimuth thruster
• A social group of cetaceans (whales, porpoises, dolphins, etc.)
• A short user-created non-fiction video or documentary aired by Current TV
• Pod, Pod 2.0, FloorPOD and Podxt line of guitar amp modellers by Line6
• Any cephalopod
• Orthotube, a door-like security device seen in the BBC television series Spooks
• iPod, an electronic device for music or video files designed by Apple Inc.
• As a partial backronym constructed from the former, any portable device for digital media similar to the iPod.
• Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
• Point of divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline
• Pouch of Douglas or rectouterine pouch, an extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus
• Proper orthogonal decomposition or principal components analysis, a method for obtaining approximate descriptions of multidimensional systems in statistics
• Probability of Detection (Nondestructive testing term)

See also

• Prince of Darkness

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