OC

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Oc or OC may refer to:

[edit] Language

• Root of the name for the ancient region of Languedoc.

[edit] People

• O.C. (rapper), member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew and the Crooklyn Dodgers
• the Officer Commanding of a military unit
• Officer of the Order of Canada (post-nominal letters)
• "oldcorollas" from the Toymods forum

[edit] Places

• Oakland County, Michigan
• Ocean City
• Orange County, California: a county south of Los Angeles; population about 3,000,000; home to such cities as Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente; and the setting of a popular television program (see below).
• Oregon City, Oregon

[edit] Things

• The O.C., American television show set in Orange County, California.
• Oakwood College, a college in northern Alabama, USA, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (more common written form OCD)
• OC Spray, see Pepper spray
• Occitan language, spoken in southern France
• Oklahoma Christian University
• Oleoresin Capsicum or Oleoresin Capsaicin, the active ingredient in pepper spray and OC gas
• openCanvas, an art program
• Operation Completion
• Optical Carrier levels in the SONET fiber-optic network specification
• Optics Communications, a journal published by Elsevier
• Oral contraceptives
• Original Campaign, in the context of computer games (in other words, the default single player campaign that came with the game)
• An Original character in fan fiction
• OxyContin
• Overclocking
• PGA Express IATA airline designator
• "Opus Clavicembalisticum", a piano piece

On-Center (oc) abbreviation used in construction for measurements. e.g. Stud Spacing -In many cases, increasing stud spacing from 16 inches oc to 24 inches oc is structurally acceptable and accepted by codes.

[edit] Ideas

• Organization Change; an associated field to Organizational Development
• "out of commission" (usually written as o/c)
• "out of control"