Roc

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

People

• Roch (c. 1348 – 1376), Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan
• Agustí Roc (born 1971), Spanish ski mountaineer
• Margaret Roc (born 1945), Australian author
• Patricia Roc (1915–2003), British actress
• Ste V Roc (born 1977), Irish hip-hop artist
• Roc Alexander (born 1981), American football player
• Roche Braziliano (fl. 1630–1671), also spelled Roc, Dutch pirate
• Roc Kirby (1918–2008), Australian businessman
• Roc Oliva (born 1989), Spanish field hockey player
• Roc Raida (1972–2009), American disc jockey, turntablist and producer
• Roc Thomas (born 1995), American football player
• R.O.C. (rapper) (born 1973), American rapper

Places

• Taiwan, formally the Republic of China
• Republic of China (1912–1949)
• Greater Rochester International Airport, by IATA airport code
• Rest of Canada, term for everywhere in Canada but Quebec
• Roč, a town in Croatia
• Le Roc, a commune in France

Companies and organizations

• Radar Operations Center, US National Weather Service unit
• Rail operating centre, a railway signalling centre in the UK
• Regional Organisations of Councils, voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia
• Registrar of Companies, India
• Remote Operations Center, a National Security Agency facility in Fort Meade, Maryland
• Restaurant Opportunities Center, a union-supported labor group
• Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, a network of clinical trial sites
• Right of Centre, a short-lived New Zealand political party
• Roc Books, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group
• Roc Nation, an American entertainment company
• Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia
• Royal Observer Corps, a former British civil defence organisation
• Russian Orthodox Church

Entertainment

• R.O.C. (band), British electronica group founded in 1983 by Fred Browning and Patrick Nicholson
• Roc (Dungeons & Dragons), a role-playing version of the mythical bird
• "Roc" (song), a 2006 song by French-born singer Nâdiya
• Roc (TV series), an American sitcom which aired 1991–94

Finance

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

Mathematics

• Radius of curvature (optics)
• Receiver operating characteristic, ROC curve (statistics)
• Radius of convergence

Sports

• Russian Olympic Committee
• Race of Champions, motorsport event combining track and rally drivers
• Race of Champions (modified racing), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars
• Roc, the name of the University of Pittsburgh's costumed panther mascot (see Panthers of Pittsburgh)

Other uses

• Roc (mythology), a mythical giant bird
• Renewables Obligation Certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry
• Resource-oriented computing
• Blackburn Roc, a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II
• Stratolaunch carrier aircraft, Scaled Composites Model 351, nicknamed "Roc"
• Republic of Chocolate

See also

• Rock (disambiguation)
• ROCS (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)
• Roque (disambiguation)