Roc

Roc may refer to:

• Roc (mythology), a mythical giant bird

People

• Roch, fourteenth century Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan
• Agustí Roc, Spanish ski mountaineer
• Margaret Roc, Australian author
• Patricia Roc, British actress
• Ste V Roc, Irish hip-hop artist
• Roc Alexander, American football player
• Roche Braziliano, also spelled Roc, 17th century Dutch pirate
• Roc Kirby, Australian businessman
• Roc Oliva, Spanish field hockey player
• Roc Raida, American disc jockey, turntablist and producer

Places

• Roč, a town in Croatia
• Le Roc, a commune in France

Companies

• Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia
• Roc Books, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group
• ROC (publisher), a primarily fantasy-oriented imprint of the publishing company New American Library

Entertainment

• Roc (Dungeons & Dragons), a role-playing version of the mythical bird
• Roc (TV series), an American sitcom which aired 1991 – 1994
• R.O.C. (band)
• "Roc" (song), from Nâdiya's eponymous album

Other uses

• Blackburn Roc, a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II
• IATA airport code for Greater Rochester International Airport
• Roc, the name of the University of Pittsburgh's costumed panther mascot (see Panthers of Pittsburgh)
• a slang term for the Rottweiler dog breed

As an acronym or initialism

ROC or R.O.C. may refer to:

In geography:

• Republic of China
• Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
• Republic of Cuba
• Rest of Canada, slang for Canada excluding Quebec
• Rochester, New York, as a colloquialism based on its IATA airport code

In finances:

• Rate of change (technical analysis)
• Return on capital

In biochemistry and medicine:

• Receptor-operated calcium channel
• Rocuronium, a drug used in medical anesthesia
• Saquinavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV
• ROC, a domain in some genes, standing for Ras Of Complex proteins.

In mathematics:

• Region of convergence (relates to the Laplace transform)
• Radius of curvature (disambiguation)
• Receiver operating characteristic, ROC curve (signal detection theory or epidemiology)

Organizations:

• Regional Organisations of Councils, voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia
• Right of Centre, a short-lived New Zealand political party
• Russian Olympic Committee
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Romanian Orthodox Church
• Royal Observer Corps, branch of the RAF and British air raid warning organisation (1926 to 1957), nuclear burst and fallout warning organisation (1957–1995), now disbanded
• Richmond Outreach Centre, a controversial church
• Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, a network of clinical trial sites
• Regional Operations Center, a network of nine Federal Aviation Administration (US) Command Control Communication Centers

In sports:

• Race of Champions, motorsport event combining track and rally drivers
• Race of Champions (Brands Hatch), non-championship Formula One motor race in United Kingdom between 1967 and 1979, and again in 1983, the final non-championship F1 race
• Race of Champions (Modified), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars

In entertainment:

• Reign of Chaos, a Warcraft computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment
• Rise of Cobra a GI Joe movie

Other uses:

• Resource-oriented computing
• Registrar of Companies
• Remote Operations Center
• Renewables Obligation Certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry