OC

Oc, OC or O.C. may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• The O.C., an American television show set in Orange County, California
• The O.C. (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in WWE
• Opus clavicembalisticum, a piece for piano by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Brands, businesses, and organizations

• OC Transpo, a public transit company in Ottawa and Carleton in Ontario, Canada
• Organisation Consul, a former terrorist organization active in Germany from 1920 to 1922
• Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, a Drum Corps International group commonly abbreviated as "OC"
• Ornithological Council
• Owens Corning, NYSE ticker symbol
• Oxi Clean, a cleaning product
• PGA Express (IATA code "OC" 2001–2015)
• Air California (IATA Code "OC" 1967–1987)

Education

• Oaklands College, a further education in central Hertfordshire, UK
• 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
• Old Carthusian, one who attended Charterhouse School
• Old Colchestrian, one who attended Colchester Royal Grammar School
• Old Chigwellian, one who attended Chigwell School
• Orewa College, a college in the North Island, New Zealand

Places

• Oak Cliff, a community in Dallas, Texas
• Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, a stadium in Oakland, California and the home of the Oakland Raiders
• Oakland County, Michigan
• Ocean City, Maryland
• Ocean City, New Jersey
• Ocean County, New Jersey
• Oceanside, California
• Oconee County, Georgia
• Oconee County, South Carolina
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Old Colwyn, Wales
• 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
• Ottawa—Carleton, a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada

Roles and titles

• Officer of the Order of Canada, post-nominal letters for a grade within the Canadian order
• Offensive coordinator, a coaching position in American and Canadian football
• Officer candidate
• Officer in charge (police)
• Officer commanding, in military use

Technology

• Oleoresin capsaicin or oleoresin capsicum, the active ingredient in pepper spray and OC gas
  • OC spray, also known as pepper spray
• Open collector, electrical interface. Used in data communication
• openCanvas, a raster graphics software
• Optical Carrier levels in the SONET fiber-optic network specification
• Oral contraceptive, usually referring to the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Organ-on-a-chip, microfluidic device that simulates whole physiological and mechanical organ responses
• 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

Other uses

• o.c. or op. cit., opere citato
• O.C. (rapper) (born 1971), American rapper
• Occitan language (ISO 639 alpha-2 oc)
• Offering circular, in finance, for a bond offering
• Order of Carmelites, a Roman Catholic order
• Organized crime, in law
• On-center, in construction, indicating that the distance quoted is between the centers of neighboring wall studs, joists, or other members
• Original content, original character, or original contribution, used to assert one's authorship of a given subject matter
• Outrigger canoe

See also

• °C
• 0C (disambiguation), the number–letter combination
• Orange County (disambiguation)