OC

Oc or OC may refer to: OC

Language and country

• Root of the name for the Occitan language or for its territory, Occitania.

People

• O.C. (rapper), an American rapper
• the Officer Commanding a military unit
• Officer Candidate in the United States Navy's STA-21 program
• Old Carthusian, one who attended Charterhouse School
• Old Colchestrian, one who attended Colchester Royal Grammar School
• Old Chigwellian, one who attended Chigwell School
• Old Cakeian, one who attended Private Eye's fictional St Cake's School
• Offensive coordinator, one who coaches the offense on a football team
• Owl City, the stage name for Adam Young, an American electronica artist

Places

• Oakland County, Michigan
• Ocean City (disambiguation)
• Ocean County, New Jersey
• Oceanside, California
• Oklahoma City
• Osceola, Indiana
• Orange County, California
• Orange County, Florida
• Orange County, Indiana
• Orange County, New York
• Orange County, North Carolina
• Orange County, Texas
• Orange County, Vermont
• Orange County, Virginia
• Oregon City, Oregon
• O.co Coliseum, a stadium in Oakland, California and the home of the Oakland Raiders

Institutions

• Oakwood College, a college in northern Alabama, USA, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Oberlin College, a liberal arts college in Ohio
• Oklahoma Christian University
• Ornithological Council

Technology

• Optical Carrier levels in the SONET fiber-optic network specification
• Open collector, electrical interface. Used in data communication
• Optics Communications, a journal published by Elsevier
• Overclocking, the process of forcing a computer component to run at a higher clock rate than it was designed for
• Overcurrent, an excessive value of electric current
• Organ-on-a-chip, microfluidic device that simulates whole physiological and mechanical organ responses

Awards

• Order of Canada, the highest award given in Canada

Miscellaneous

• offering circular in finance, "the OC" for a bond offering
• The O.C., an American television show set in Orange County, California
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (more common written form: OCD)
• Oleoresin Capsaicin or Oleoresin Capsicum, the active ingredient in pepper spray and OC gas
  • OC Spray, also known as Pepper spray
• OC Transpo, a public transit operator in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Only Connect, a British television programme
• Orange County, a 2002 comedy film
• Organized crime
• openCanvas, an art program
• Open cluster in astronomy
• Operation Completion
• Oral contraceptive, usually referring to the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International group commonly abbreviated as "OC"
• Original character, in fan fiction
• Original content, in Internet abbreviation
• Oxi Clean, a cleaning product
• OxyContin
• PGA Express IATA airline designator
• Opus clavicembalisticum, a piece for piano by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
• "Oc", an abbreviation for "Ocarina"

See also

• 0C (disambiguation), the number-letter combination