Cog

Cog or COG may refer to:

Media

• "The Changing of the Guard" (The Twilight Zone), a 1962 episode of the TV series The Twilight Zone
• "Cog" (advertisement), a British television and cinema advertisement launched by Honda
• Cog (band), an Australian progressive rock band
• Star Wars Jedi Quest 8: The Changing of the Guard, the eighth book in the Star Wars Jedi Quest series by Jude Watson

In fiction

• The Coalition of Ordered Governments, a fictional organization from the Gears of War series
• Cogs, the fictional antagonists in the MMORPG Toontown Online
• Cogs, the fictional foot soldiers of Power Rangers' Machine Empire

Music

• "Change of the Guard", a song from Steely Dan's 1972 album Can't Buy a Thrill
• "Changing of the Guard", a song from Exodus' 1990 album Impact Is Imminent
• The Changing of the Guard (album), the twelfth album by indie rock band Starflyer 59
• "Changing of the Guards", a single from Bob Dylan's 1978 album Street-Legal

Organizations

• Canberra Ornithologists Group, an Australian ornithological organization
• Children's Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute supported clinical trials group
• Church of God, a name used by numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominational bodies
• Council of governments, regional bodies that exist throughout the United States
• Covenant of the Goddess, a cross-traditional Wiccan group

Science and engineering

• C0G, an EIA Class 1 dielectric material with the lowest capacitance/temperature dependence
• Center of gravity, a spatial point related to an object's center of mass
• Cog, an integral part of a gear
• Cog (project), a project at the Humanoid Robotics Group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• INSEE code (also code officiel géographique), a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
• Mount Washington Cog Railway, the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway
• OpenCog, a project that aims to build an open source artificial general intelligence framework

Other

• Changing of the Guard (or Guard Mounting), a formal ceremony in which sentries relieved by their replacements
• Cog (ship), a type of sailboat from the 10th century
• Cog (software), an open source audio player for Mac OS X
• Continuity of government, the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a government to continue its essential operations in case of catastrophe
• Course over ground, the actual path followed by a vessel from A to B as determined by its course

See also

• COGS (disambiguation)
• Coq