POC most commonly refers to: *

Person of color The term "person of color" (: people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is used to describe any person who is not considered "white". In its current meaning, the term originated in, and is associated with, the United States. From th ...

or people of color *

Proof of concept A proof of concept (POC or PoC), also known as proof of principle, is an inchoate realization of a certain idea or method in order to demonstrate its feasibility or viability. A proof of concept is usually small and may or may not be complete ...

, used to demonstrate the feasibility of an idea *

Point of contact A point of contact (POC) or single point of contact (SPOC) is a person or a department serving as the coordinator or focal point of information concerning an activity or program. A POC is used in many cases where information is time-sensitive and ...

, 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 Percentage of completion (PoC) is an accounting method of work-in-progress evaluation, for recording long-term contracts. GAAP allows another method of revenue recognition for long-term construction contracts, the completed-contract method The Com ...

, a work-in-progress evaluation * Production office coordinator, in film and television production

Medicine

Point of care Clinical point of care (POC) is the point in time when clinicians deliver healthcare products and services to patients at the time of care. Clinical documentation Clinical documentation is a record of the critical thinking and judgment of a health ...

, designating a service or product given at a medical-services facility *

Portable oxygen concentrator A portable oxygen concentrator (POC) is a device used to provide oxygen therapy to people that require greater oxygen concentrations than the levels of ambient air. It is similar to a home oxygen concentrator (OC), but is smaller in size and mor ...

, a medical oxygen source *

Products of conception Products of conception, abbreviated POC, is a medical term used for the tissue derived from the union of an Egg (biology), egg and a sperm. It encompasses anembryonic gestation (blighted ovum) which does not have a viable embryo. In the context o ...

, tissue resulting from the union of an egg and sperm

Organizations and companies

Philippine Olympic Committee The Philippine Olympic Committee Inc. (POC) is the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines. The POC is a private, non-governmental organization composed of and serve as the mother organization of all National Sports Associations (NSAs) in ...

, the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines * Professional Officer Course, of the US

Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps The Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFROTC) is one of the three primary commissioning sources for officers in the United States Air Force and United States Space Force, the other two being the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA ...

program *

Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in the United States The Communist Labor Party of the United States of North America (CLP or CLP(USNA)) was an anti-revisionist communist party that was part of the New Communist movement in the United States. The CLP was founded in 1974 and disbanded in 1993. The ...

, a splinter of the Communist Party USA

Science and technology

Particulate organic carbon Particulate organic matter (POM) is a fraction of total organic matter operationally defined as that which does not pass through a filter pore size that typically ranges in size from 0.053 millimeters (53 μm) to 2 millimeters. Particulate org ...

, carbon particles too large to pass through a filter *

Products of combustion Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, fuel oil, biodiesel blends, or coal. According to the type of engine, it is discharged into the atmosphere through ...

, the chemicals formed by burning materials in oxygen *

Proof-of-capacity Proof of space (PoS) is a type of consensus algorithm achieved by demonstrating one's legitimate interest in a service (such as sending an email) by allocating a non-trivial amount of memory or disk space to solve a challenge presented by the ser ...

, an algorithm used to mine the Burstcoin digital cryptocurrency *

Proto-Oceanic language Proto-Oceanic (abbreviated as POc) is a proto-language that historical linguists since Otto Dempwolff have reconstructed as the hypothetical common ancestor of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Oceanic is a desce ...

(POc), the protolanguage ancestral to the Oceanic languages *

Push to talk over cellular Push-to-talk (PTT), also known as press-to-transmit, is a method of having conversations or talking on half-duplex communication lines, including two-way radio, using a momentary button to switch from voice reception mode to transmit mode. H ...

(PoC), a service to use a cellphone as walkie-talkie

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Atitlán grebe The Atitlán grebe (''Podilymbus gigas''), also known as giant grebe, giant pied-billed grebe, or poc, is an extinct water bird, a relative of the pied-billed grebe. It was endemic at the Lago de Atitlán in Guatemala at an altitude of 1700 m ...

, an extinct water bird, also known as a poc *

Brackett Field Brackett Field is a public airport a mile (2 km) southwest of La Verne, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was named after astronomer Frank Parkhurst Brackett (1865–1951). History Brackett Field, named after Frank Parkh ...

, a public airport a mile (2 km) southwest of La Verne, California; IATA airport code POC *

Prisoner of conscience A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. The term also refers to those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for the nonviolent expression of their conscienti ...

, anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views *

Pakistan Origin Card Overseas Pakistanis (), or the Pakistani diaspora, refer to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan. These include citizens who have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent. According to a December 201 ...

, issued to persons of Pakistani origin

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