OC

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Oc or OC may refer to:

[edit] Language and country

• Root of the name for the Occitan language or for its country, Occitania.

[edit] People

• O.C. (rapper), member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew and the Crooklyn Dodgers
• the Officer Commanding of a military unit
• An Officer of the Order of Canada, as the post-nominal letters "O.C."
• Officer Candidate in the United States Navy's STA-21 program
• An Old Colchestrian, one who attended Colchester Royal Grammar School
• An Old Chigwellian, one who attended Chigwell School
• An Old Cakeian, one who attended Private Eye's fictional St Cake's School
• An Offensive Coordinator, one who coaches the offense on a football team.

[edit] Places

• Oak Cliff
• Oakland County, Michigan
• Ocean City
• Orange County, New York
• Orange County, California
• Oregon City, Oregon

[edit] Miscellaneous

• 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
• OC Transpo, a public transit operator in Ottawa, Ontario
• Organized Crime
• Oklahoma Christian University
• Oleoresin Capsicum or Oleoresin Capsaicin, the active ingredient in pepper spray and OC gas
• openCanvas, an art program

• Onions Cancer another way of expressing the term B.G, which directly correlates to the onion cells becoming aggressive and attacking adjacent cells of the physical construction, relating to cancer's behaviour
• Open cluster in astronomy
• Operations Coordinator
• Operation Completion
• Optical Carrier levels in the SONET fiber-optic network specification
• Optics Communications, a journal published by Elsevier
• Oral contraceptive, usually referring to the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Organic carbon
• 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. OC: 'Old Cottonian' is in direct context to any student who has graduated from Bishop Cotton School, Shimla India

[edit] Ideas

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