Roc, ROC, or R.O.C. may refer to:

People

* Roch (c. 1348 – 1376), Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan * Agustí Roc (born 1971), Spanish ski mountaineer * Margaret Roc (born 1945), Australian author * Patricia Roc (1915–2003), British actress * Ste V Roc (born 1977), Irish hip-hop artist * Roc Alexander (born 1981), American football player * Roche Braziliano (fl. 1630–1671), also spelled Roc, Dutch pirate * Roc Kirby (1918–2008), Australian businessman * Roc Oliva (born 1989), Spanish field hockey player * Roc Raida (1972–2009), American disc jockey, turntablist and producer * Roc Riggio (born 2002), American baseball player * Roc Taylor (born 2002), American football player * Roc Thomas (born 1995), American football player * The R.O.C. (rapper) (born 1973), American rapper

Places

*Republic of China, the official name of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

Republic of China (1912–1949) The Republic of China (ROC) began on 1 January 1912 as a sovereign state in mainland China following the 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu people, Manchu-led Qing dynasty and ended China's imperial China, imperial history. From 1927, ...

, the internationally recognized government of China prior to the retreat of the Kuomintang to Taiwan and the establishment of the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party *

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

, the official name of a Central African country *

Republic of Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the third lar ...

, the official name of Cyprus * Rest of Canada, term for everywhere in Canada outside Quebec *

Roč Roč (; ) is a village in Istria County, north-west Croatia. Administratively it belongs to the List of cities and towns in Croatia, town of Buzet. Roč is considered a historic town rather than a village due to its rich cultural heritage. Geogr ...

, a town in Croatia * Le Roc, a commune in France *

Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty (), is an area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. In modern usage, it is a registration county and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. Between 1889 and 1975 it was a Shires of Scotland, county. Historical ...

, registration county in Scotland, Chapman code * Republic of Crimea, a disputed Russian republic * Republic of Cuba, the official name of Cuba

Companies and organizations

* Radar Operations Center, US National Weather Service unit * Regional Organisations of Councils, voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia * Registrar of Companies, India *

Remote Operations Center The Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO), structured as S32, is a cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the National Security Agency (NSA). It has been active since at least 1998, possibly 1997, but was not named or structured as ...

, a National Security Agency facility in Fort Meade, Maryland * Restaurant Opportunities Center, a union-supported labor group * Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, a network of clinical trial sites * Right of Centre, a short-lived New Zealand political party * Roc Books, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group * Roc Nation, an American entertainment company * Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia * Royal Observer Corps, a former British civil defence organisation *

Romanian Orthodox Church The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; , ), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the East ...

Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), p ...

Entertainment

* R.O.C. (band), British electronica group founded in 1983 by Fred Browning and Patrick Nicholson * Roc (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a role-playing version of the mythical bird * "Roc" (Nâdiya song), 2006 * Roc (The-Dream song) * ''Roc'' (TV series), an American sitcom which aired 1991–94

Finance

* Rate of change (technical analysis) *

Return of capital Return of capital (ROC) refers to principal payments back to "capital owners" (shareholders, partners, unitholders) that exceed the growth (net income/taxable income) of a business or investment. It should not be confused with Rate of Return (ROR) ...

Return on capital Return on capital (ROC), or return on invested capital (ROIC), is a ratio used in finance, valuation and accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entity, economi ...

* Return on costs

Mathematics

* Radius of curvature (optics) *

Receiver operating characteristic A receiver operating characteristic curve, or ROC curve, is a graph of a function, graphical plot that illustrates the performance of a binary classifier model (can be used for multi class classification as well) at varying threshold values. ROC ...

, ROC curve (statistics) * Radius of convergence

Transport and vehicles

* Rail operating centre, a type of railway signalling centre in the UK * Rate of climb, in aviation * Greater Rochester International Airport (IATA airport code ROC), Rochester, Monroe County, New York State, USA * Roche railway station (station code ROC), Roche, Cornwall, England, UK *"Roc" (N351SL), the first (and only) Scaled Composites ''Stratolaunch'' (Model 351), an aircraft designed to carry air-launch-to-orbit rockets * Blackburn ''Roc'', a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II

Sports

* Russian Olympic Committee ** ROC, the IOC code used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes: *** Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics *** Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics * Race of Champions (disambiguation) ** Race of Champions, motorsport event combining track and rally drivers ** Race of Champions (modified racing), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars * Roc, the name of the University of Pittsburgh's costumed panther mascot (see Panthers of Pittsburgh) * ROC, the IOC code formerly used for Republic of China at the Olympics 1924–1948

Other uses

Roglai language The Roglai language is a Chamic language of southern Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100& ...

(ISO 639 language code roc) * Renewables Obligation certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry * Republic of Chocolate * Resource-oriented computing *

Roc (mythology) The roc is an enormous legendary bird of prey in the popular mythology of the Middle East. The roc appears in Arab geographies and natural history, popularized in Arabian fairy tales and sailors' folklore. Ibn Battuta tells of a mountain hoverin ...

, a mythical giant bird *

Roc-A-Fella Records Roc-A-Fella Records was an American record label and music management company founded in 1994 by record executives and entrepreneurs Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Damon Dash, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke. Carter issued his debut album, '' Reasonable Doubt ...

, known as "The Roc"