Pom

POM, Pom, or pom may refer to:

Business

• Pepco Holdings, the stock symbol for Pepco Holdings, Inc.
• Production and Operations Management

Food and beverages

• POM Wonderful, a brand of pomegranate juice
• Pom (dish), a taro like root based oven dish native to Suriname

Science

Astronomy

• Phase of Moon, or lunar phase, the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon

Chemistry

• Pivaloyloxymethyl, the (CH₃)₃C-CO-O-CH₂- functional group in organic chemistry
• Polyoxometalate, a type of inorganic compound used as catalysts
• Polyoxymethylene, a common plastic polymer

Ecology

• Particulate organic matter of biological origin that is suspended in water (lakes, rivers, oceans)

Geoscience

• Princeton Ocean Model, a model for ocean circulation

Medicine

• Prescription-only medicine, a medicine that requires a prescription

Technologies

Computers

• Parallax occlusion mapping (computer graphics), a method to add 3D complexity to textures
• Probabilistic Ontology Model, a method for ontology learning, see KAON
• Project Object Model, the central construct of the Apache Maven build management system

Television, film, music

• Baby Pom, the youngest of the Fimbles in the CBeebies television programme
• Piece of Mind, an album of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden
• Puddle of Mudd, an American hard rock band
• The Penguins of Madagascar, animated TV show
• Piece of Me, Britney Spears song from the album Blackout

Places

• Port Moresby Airport, IATA code
• Presidio of Monterey, California, an active US Army installation located in Monterey

Publications

• PlayStation: The Official Magazine, a video game magazine
• Pom (comics), a Belgian comic strip writer and artist

Words for people

• Pom, a slang term for a British person

Other uses

• Pom-pon or pompom, a decorative ball
• Pomeranian (dog), a breed of dog
• a word that one may use to make the reader misinterpret the word as porn.

External links

• POM, a brand of instant mashed potato sold in the 1940s