POC

POC, PoC, or POc may refer to:

Business

• Paid Outside Closing, monies paid in real estate transactions not included in calculations to borrower or seller
• Percentage of Completion, a method of work in progress evaluation
• Production Office Coordinator, a position in film and television production
• Point of contact, or single point of contact (SPOC), the single person or department used for communication with an organization, activity, or program
• Proof of Concept, a test to prove something intended is actually possible, conceptually identical to the intended final product

Organizations

• Philippine Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee of the Philippines
• The "Professional Officer Course", a part of the United States Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program
• Pirates of the Caribbean, a Walt Disney entertainment franchise

Science, technology, and medicine

• Poc. stands for Reginald Innes Pocock, a British naturalist, in systematic species descriptions (e.g. Anoplodesmus anthracinus Poc., 1895)
• Product of conception, a term for an embryo
• Proof of concept, a term used in system development to prove the viability of a potential system
• Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC), a variant of Push to Talk (PTT)
• Picture order count, which defines the decoding order of fields/frames in the H.264 video standard
• Portable oxygen concentrator, a medical oxygen source designed for use while traveling
• Particulate organic carbon, carbon in water removable by filtering, as opposed to dissolved organic carbon, see total organic carbon
• Polycarbonate, a particular group of thermoplastic polymers, trademarked as Lexan

Transportation

• Port of call, any port visited by a ship except that ship's home port
• Pride of Calais, Dover - Calais P&O Ferry
• Pride of Canterbury, Dover - Calais P&O Ferry

Other uses

• Person of color, a term for causes relating to black people, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, or any ethnic or racial group other than white Europeans
• Prisoner of conscience, a term used by Amnesty International
• Piece of Cake (disambiguation), a common abbreviation
• Proto Oceanic (POc), the protolanguage ancestral to Oceanic languages
• Point of Comparison
• Protection of Civilians, a basic element of international humanitarian law, whereby civilians not taking part in an armed conflict must have certain rights upheld, with the phrase most commonly used in reference to the activities of certain United Nations peacekeeping missions, mandated to protect civilians by the United Nations Security Council