OC

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Oc or OC may refer to:

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 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

Places

• Oak Cliff
• Oakland County, Michigan
• Ocean City
• Oceanside, California
• Oklahoma City, The Capital of Oklahoma
• Orange County, California
• Orange County, New York
• Oregon City, Oregon

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

Awards

• The Order of Canada, the highest award given in Canada

Miscellaneous

• The O.C., 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
• Organized crime
• openCanvas, an art program
• Open cluster in astronomy
• Operation Completion
• Oral contraceptive, usually referring to the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Original character, in fan fiction
• Oxi Clean, cleaning product
• OxyContin
• PGA Express IATA airline designator
• "Opus Clavicembalisticum", a musical piece for piano

[edit] See also

• 0C - the number-letter combination

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