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

People

Roch Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoke ...

(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 Anthony Williams (May 17, 1972 – September 19, 2009), better known as Roc Raida or Grandmaster Roc Raida, was an American DJ, turntablist and producer. He was also a member of the DJ group the X-Ecutioners. Biography Williams joined the X-Me ...

(1972–2009), American disc jockey, turntablist and producer *

Roc Riggio Roc Jack Riggio (born June 11, 2002) is an American professional baseball second baseman in the New York Yankees organization. He played college baseball for the Oklahoma State Cowboys baseball, Oklahoma State Cowboys. Career Riggio began playin ...

(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 Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

, the official name of Cuba

Companies and organizations

Radar Operations Center The Radar Operations Center (ROC) is a National Weather Service (NWS) unit that coordinates the development, maintenance, and training for the NEXRAD weather radar network. It is located near the University of Oklahoma Westheimer Airport in Norma ...

, US National Weather Service unit *

Regional Organisations of Councils Regional Organisations of Councils (ROCs) – sometimes called Voluntary Regional Organisations of Councils – are voluntary groupings of councils in Australia. ROCs usually involve collaborative partnerships between neighbouring councils in a p ...

, voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia *

Registrar of Companies, India The Registrar of Companies (ROC) is an office under the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs that deals with administration of the Companies Act, 2013, The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, The Company Secretaries Act, 1980 and The Chart ...

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 The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) is a not-for-profit organization and worker center with affiliates in a number of cities across the United States. Its mission is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation's low wage ...

, a union-supported labor group *

Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) is a network of eleven regional clinical centers and a data coordinating center. The consortium conducts experimental and observational studies of out-of-hospital treatments of cardiac arrest and trauma. ...

, a network of clinical trial sites *

Right of Centre Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalism. Conservative and l ...

, a short-lived New Zealand political party *

Roc Books Roc Books is a fantasy imprint of Penguin Group, as part of its New American Library. It was launched in April 1990 after Penguin Chairman Peter Mayer asked John Silbersack, the editor in chief of New American Library's science fiction (SF) pro ...

, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group *

Roc Nation Roc Nation is an American entertainment company founded by Jay-Z in 2008. Headquartered in New York City, the company is a successor to his previous Roc-A-Fella Records label, with additional offices in Los Angeles and London. It serves as a re ...

, an American entertainment company * Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia *

Royal Observer Corps The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain. It operated in the United Kingdom between 29 October 1925 and 31 Decembe ...

, 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) In financial technical analysis, momentum (MTM) and rate of change (ROC) are simple indicators showing the difference between today's closing price and the close N days ago. Momentum is the absolute difference in stock, commodity: : \text = \te ...

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) Radius of curvature (ROC) has specific meaning and sign convention in optical design. A spherical lens or mirror surface has a center of curvature located either along or decentered from the system local optical axis. The vertex of the le ...

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 In mathematics, the radius of convergence of a power series is the radius of the largest Disk (mathematics), disk at the Power series, center of the series in which the series Convergent series, converges. It is either a non-negative real number o ...

Transport and vehicles

Rail operating centre A rail operating centre (ROC) is a building that houses all signallers, signalling equipment, ancillaries and operators for a specific region or route on the United Kingdom's main rail network. The ROC supplants the work of several other Signal ...

, a type of railway signalling centre in the UK *

Rate of climb In aeronautics, the rate of climb (RoC) is an aircraft's vertical speed, that is the positive or negative rate of altitude change with respect to time. In most ICAO member countries, even in otherwise metric countries, this is usually expressed ...

, in aviation * Greater Rochester International Airport (IATA airport code ROC), Rochester, Monroe County, New York State, USA *

Roche railway station Roche railway station () serves the village of Roche in Cornwall, England. The station is situated on the Atlantic Coast Line, measured from the zero point at (via and ). The station is managed and served by Great Western Railway local tra ...

(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 The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is the National Olympic Committee representing Russia. Its current president during IOC suspension is Mikhail Degtyarev. The membership of ROC is currently suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC ...

** ROC, the IOC code used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes: ***

Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics Prior to the 2019 decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the Russian Federation was expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which took place from 23 July to 8 August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It would h ...

***

Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Russian athletes competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022, under the "Russian Olympic Committee" designation (using the acronym "ROC") due to the consequences of the doping scandal in the country. On 9 ...

* Race of Champions (disambiguation) **

Race of Champions The Race of Champions (ROC) is an international motorsport event held at the start or end of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers from Formula One, World Rally Championship, IndyCar, NASCAR, sports car racin ...

, 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 The Republic of China (ROC) took part in the opening ceremony of the 1924 Summer Olympics, but its four athletes, all of whom were tennis players, withdrew from competition. The ROC participated in its first Olympic Games in 1932 under the name o ...

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 The Renewables Obligation (RO) is a market support mechanism designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom. There are three related schemes for the three legal jurisdictions of the UK. In ...

certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry * Republic of Chocolate *

Resource-oriented computing Resource-oriented computing (ROC) is a simple abstract computing model used for describing, designing, and implementing software and software systems. The fundamental idea behind ROC is derived from the World Wide Web, Unix, and other sources as we ...

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"