The acronym POE or PoE can be expanded as follows. For people or characters named Poe, see Poe. Poe may refer to: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a famous American writer Ted Poe (1948-), U.S. Congressman for the 2nd Congressional District of Texas. ...

Information technology:

• Power over Ethernet, a technology to transmit power along with data over standard network cables
• the Perl Object Environment, a multitasking and networking framework in the Perl programming language
• POE, a bootstrapping multi-threaded server incorporating 4.3BSD functionality in early versions of the Mach kernel

Currencies: A PoE injector (PSE) puts power into the cable and a PoE power splitter (PD) draws power from the cable. ... Programming Republic of Perl logo The Perl Object Environment or POE is a library of Perl modules written in the Perl programming language by Rocco Caputo et. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computation. ...

• the piece of eight, a colloquial name for the Spanish dollar silver coin historically minted in Mexico
• pieces of eight, a virtual currency in the online game Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Internet sites: The Spanish dollar or peso (literally, heavy, or pound) is a silver coin which was minted in Spain after a Spanish currency reform in 1497. ... Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Three Rings Design. ...

• the Portal of Evil, a humorous web directory (the acronym is sometimes verbed as in "your site has been POEd")
• Planes of Existence, an online virtual world of the talker variety

Mathematics: Portal of Evil (POE) is a humorous web directory co-founded by Chet Faliszek (of Old Man Murray) and K. Thor Jensen, and based in the Seattle area (formerly Cleveland, Ohio). ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

• propagation of error, a phenomenon discussed in statistics, numerical analysis and quality management

Cinema: In statistics, propagation of uncertainty (or propagation of error) is the effect of variables uncertainties (or errors) on the uncertainty of a function based on them. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... Numerical analysis is the study of approximate methods for the problems of continuous mathematics (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). ... Quality management is a method for ensuring that all the activities necessary to design, develop and implement a product or service are effective and efficient with respect to the system and its performance. ...

• purity of essence or peace on earth, anagrams of the nuclear-war "recall code" in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

Administration: An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. ... This article is about the director. ... Strangelove redirects here. ...

• port of entry
• place of employment

Chemistry: A port of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. ...

• polyoxyethylene derivatives, a series of polymers consisting of functionalized chains of oxyethylene e.g. polysorbate compounds such as Tween® and POE alcohols such as Brij®. Also called polyethylene glycol and polyethylene oxide.

Philosophy: Polysorbate is an oily liquid. ... Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyethylene oxide (PEO) are polymers composed of repeating subunits of identical structure, called monomers, and are the most commercially important polyethers. ... Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyethylene oxide are polymers of ethylene oxide. ...

• problem of evil

Other: In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god or gods. ...

• Point of Existence

For TLA lovers, TheFreeDictionary.com lists even more acronyms for POE. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The TLA (three-letter acronym or three-letter abbreviation) is a TLA and is the most popular type of abbreviation in technical terminology, and is also very common in general language. ... TheFreeDictionary. ...

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