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==Pod== Pod may refer to:
  • 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.

In 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

    In 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

    POD

    POD may refer to:

    Technology

  • Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent

    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
  • 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

    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

    Other

  • 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 statisticsFurther Information

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