POD

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POD may refer to:

• POD (brand), a brand of digital amplifier and effects modellers
• Parachute Opening Device, a device that automatically opens a parachute at a certain height when the user doesn't open it manually
• Payable On Death (or "P.O.D."), a southern California-based rock band
• 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
• Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, a film, album and single by Tenacious D
• 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
• 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
• Point of Deployment, in digital cable television, haw functionality is added to set top boxes
• Point of divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline
• Port of discharge, a shipping term used to indicate the unloading port of a voyage of cargo
• Portable On Demand Storage, a portable storage unit
• Prince of Darkness, a phrase with several meanings including Satan, the title of several works of art, and the nicknames of several people
• Print on demand (also "publishing on demand"), published works not produced until a copy is ordered
• Proof of delivery, an international commerce term for a signed document proving delivery
• Proper orthogonal decomposition, in statistics, method for obtaining approximate descriptions of multidimensional systems
• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent

[edit] See also

• Pod, for a list of articles which could be entitled "Pod"