Pop

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Pop or POP may refer to:

A truncation of popular:

• Pop music, a mainstream musical genre, originally an abbreviation of popular music
  • see also List of Pop Music sub-genres
• Pop art, an art movement of the 1960s and 1970s
• Pop culture, any widespread cultural elements in a society

An abbreviation for population, the collection of people or organisms in a given area or space

In computing:

• Pop, an operation on a stack (data structure)
• Screen pop, short for Screen Population, a function of Computer Telephony Integration
• Parallel Ocean Program an ocean circulation model
• Post Office Protocol, an Internet email protocol
• Point of Presence, an artificial demarcation point or interface point between communications entities.

In food:

• Soft drink
• Popsicle
• Lollipop
• Pop (frozen snack)
• Pop Weaver, a brand of popcorn

In culture:

• Music
  • Pop music, a genre of music
  • Pop (album), by U2
  • Pop (Same Difference album), a 2008 album by British duo Same Difference
  • "Pop" (song), by 'N Sync
  • Pop (Joachim Witt album), by Joachim Witt
  • Pop!, a UK pop group, active in the mid 2000s
  • Pop Shuvit, a Malaysian band
• Dance
  • Popping (dance), a style of street dance
• Sports
  • "Coach Pop", Gregg Popovich, Head Coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs
  • Pop (professional wrestling term)
• TV & Film
  • Pop (TV channel), a digital television channel in the UK
  • POP TV, a Slovenian television network
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a film scheduled for release in 2009, based on the Prince of Persia video games.
• Gaming
  • Pop (video game), a 2008 video game
  • Pokémon Organized Play, the official tournament for the Pokémon Trading Card Game
  • Prince of Persia franchise
    • Prince of Persia (1989), a 2-D video game developed by Jordan Mechner
    • Prince of Persia (2008), a next-gen video game developed by Ubisoft
• Other fiction
  • Pop Tate, a character from Archie Comics
  • Pop (Happy Tree Friends), a Happy Tree Friends character

In geography:

• Pop River (Jijia), Iaşi County, Romania
• Pop River (Sadu), Sibiu County, Romania

Pop is a Romanian surname that may refer to:

• Gheorghe Pop de Băseşti, politician and signatory of the Transylvanian Memorandum
• Iulian Pop, politician and mayor of Cluj

POP may also be an acronym for:

• Point of Purchase, in retailing, a stand to promote last minute impulsive buys
• Package on package, a way of stacking Ball grid array packages on top of one another
• Proof-of-payment, the honor-based fare collection approach used on many public transportation systems.
• Proof of Principle in research and development
• Problem-oriented policing, a policing strategy developed by Herman Goldstein
• Process Oriented Psychology aka 'Process Work', a body of theory and psychotherapeutic practice

Airport and Rail station codes:

• Puerto Plata Airport's IATA Airport Code
• Poppleton railway station, England; National Rail station code POP

In science:

• Plaster of Paris
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Persistent organic pollutant, organic compound resistant to environmental degradation
• Probability of Precipitation, calculated during probabilistic forecasting
• Progestogen only pill, a hormonal contraceptive

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