Pod (noun)

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• A short (one to eight minute), user-created non-fiction video or documentary aired by Current TV
• The seed-case of a flowering plant
• A method of propulsion for ships also known as an Azimuth thruster
• A social group of cetaceans (whales, porpoises, dolphins, etc.)
• A Welsh poet whose real name is Arwel Roberts
• A shortened, affectionate term for a Podiatrist
• Planet of Death, a futuristic racing game
• Pod Racing Chassis, Late Model stock car chassis
• A device used for carrying spare ammunition in a game of paintball.
• A slang term meaning "passed overdose", made popular by the band Bone Thugs N Harmony.
• Pod, Pod 2.0, FloorPOD and Podxt line of guitar amp modellers by Line6
• Orthotube, a door-like security device seen in the BBC television series Spooks

In music

• P.O.D. or Payable on Death, Californian rap metal quartet
• Pod (Afro Celt Sound System album), a 2004 album
• Pod (album), a rock album by The Breeders
• The Pod, a 1991 album by Ween
• The Pick of Destiny, An album by Tencious D
  • POD, a song on that album
• "Past Over-Dose", originally coined by rap group Bone Thugs N Harmony

In movies

• EVA Pod a fictional spacecraft used for extra-vehicular activity seen in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• A fictional organic gaming console featured in the movie eXistenZ.
• The growth medium for the replacements in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)

Current TV is an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, and businessman Joel Hyatt. ... A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ... Siemens Schottel azimuth thrusters An Azimuth thruster is a configuration of ship propellers placed in pods that can be rotated in any horizontal direction. ... Suborders Mysticeti Odontoceti (see text) The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with podiatry. ... POD - Planet of Death is a video game, a futuristic racing game by Ubisoft. ... Line 6, founded in 1996 and based in Agoura Hills, California, is a manufacturer of digital modelling electric guitars, amplifiers and effects processors. ... Orthotubes at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Central Office in Canberra, Australia. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For the music band, see The Spooks. ... This article is about the California metal band. ... Payable on Death is the fifth studio album, and third major label release by Californian rap metal quartet P.O.D.. This is also the first album to include Jason Truby. ... Pod, released May 4, 2004 by Real World Records, is essentially a remix album by Afro Celt Sound System of their first three albums, Volume 1: Sound Magic, Volume 2: Release, and Volume 3: Further in Time, done by members of the band and new artists as well, including some... Pod is the debut album by the Breeders. ... The Pod is the second studio album by Ween, originally released by Shimmy Disc in 1991. ... The Pick of Destiny is a soundtrack album by the American rock band Tenacious D for the movie Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny. ... POD is the first single from comedy-rock duo Tenacious Ds second studio album, The Pick of Destiny, which also serves as the soundtrack for the movie Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny. ... Bone Thugs -N- Harmony Bone Thugs n Harmony is a US rap group from Cleveland, Ohio. ... EVA pod is a two member band out of central Florida, located in a crappy county called Polk. ... eXistenZ is a 1999 psychological thriller/science fiction film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. ... Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction film. ...

POD

POD may refer to:

Technology

• POD (brand), a brand of digital amplifier and effects modelers
• Parachute Opening Device, a device that automatically opens a parachute at a certain height when the user doesn't open it manually
• Point of Deployment, in digital cable television, how functionality is added to set top boxes
• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent
• Preformed Offsite Design Systems, see Bathroom POD
• iPod, a device that plays digital music and video files which was designed by Apple Inc.

The Line 6 logo. ... This article is about the device. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... Dr. Graeme Charter and Norman Starkey developed the “POD” (or Protective Oceanic Device), which is the first successful electronic shark repellent for scuba divers. ... iPod is a brand of portable media player designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001. ... Apple Inc. ...

Computers

• Ping of death, a type of attack on a computer
• Plain Old Data Structures, a term for all data types from the C programming language in C++
• Plain Old Documentation, a platform-independent documentation tool for the computer language Perl
• Portable On Demand Storage, a portable storage unit

A ping of death (abbreviated POD) is a type of attack on a computer that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. ... Plain Old Data Structures (PODS) are data structures that are represented only as passive collections of field values, without using encapsulation or other object-oriented features. ... Plain Old Documentation, commonly abbreviated as POD, is a simple platform-independent documentation tool for the computer language Perl. ... Portable On Demand Storage (abbreviated to PODS) is a company founded in January, 1998 in Clearwater, Florida by Peter Warhurst, Roy Courtney, David Revelia and Bill Ash. ...

Culture

• The Path of Daggers, the eighth book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan
• Payable On Death (or "P.O.D."), a southern California-based rock band
• Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, a film, album and single by Tenacious D
• Planet of Death, a racing game which was one of the first games to use the MMX instruction set; also the name of a 1981 video game which was also known as Adventure A
• Power of Dreams, a Dublin-based pop/rock band

Original cover of The Path of Daggers, showing Rand alThor leading his forces into battle The Path of Daggers (abbreviated as tPoD by fans) is the eighth book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan. ... Payable on Death is the fifth studio album, and third major label release by Californian rap metal quartet P.O.D.. This is also the first album to include Jason Truby. ... POD - Planet of Death is a video game, a futuristic racing game by Ubisoft. ... Dublin based pop/rock band. ...

Business

• Payable on Death (finance), often used to describe a bank account that will be paid out to a beneficiary (e.g., "a POD account") or a mechanism of pension disbursement
• Port of discharge, a shipping term used to indicate the unloading port of a voyage of cargo
• Proof of delivery, an international commerce term for a signed document proving delivery
• Print on demand (also "publishing on demand"), published works not produced until a copy is ordered
• Point of decision

For the United States of America, Payable On Death is standard terminology for a means or method or arrangement of establishing, for a financial account or financial instrument, a Beneficiary (a person, trust, charity, estate, or other entity) to receive a financial Asset upon death of the Owner. ... A method to establish the fact that the reciepient did receive the contents sent by the sendor. ... Print on demand (POD), sometimes mistakenly referred to as publish on demand, is a printing technology employed by publishers in which new copies of a book (or other document) are not printed until after an order for them has been received. ...

Other

• Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
• Point of divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline
• Prince of Darkness, a phrase with several meanings including Satan, the title of several works of art, and the nicknames of several people
• Pouch of Douglas, An extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus. The rectouterine pouch is called the pouch of Douglas after the Scottish anatomist James Douglas (1675-1742).
• Post operative day Number of days after a surgical procedure
• Proper orthogonal decomposition, in statistics, method for obtaining approximate descriptions of multidimensional systems
• Print on Demand, a printing technology in which a copy is not created until after an order is received.

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