Pod
Pod or POD may refer to:
- Post Office Department of the United States
Biology
[edit]- Pod (fruit), a type of fruit of a flowering plant
- Husk or pod of a legume
- Pod of whales or other marine mammals
- "-pod", a suffix meaning "foot" used in taxonomy
Electronics and computing
[edit]- Proper orthogonal decomposition in the field of numerical simulation
- Plain old data in computing, data distinct from an object
- Plain Old Documentation, a documentation tool for the computer language Perl
- Point of delivery (networking)
- Pseudo open drain, an electronics interface technology
- Personal online data stores, storage of personal data for the web decentralization project Solid
- Pod, the basic scheduling unit in Kubernetes
Film and television
[edit]- Pod (film), an American horror film
- Podracer, a type of vehicle from the Star Wars universe
- Orthotube or pod, a fictional security device in Spooks
- Pod, the growth medium for the replacements in Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Pod, a fictional organic gaming console featured in existenz
- Personal Overhaul Device on Snog Marry Avoid?
Music
[edit]- P.O.D., an American metal band from San Diego, California
- Pod (Afro Celt Sound System album) (2004)
- Pod (The Breeders album) (1990)
- The Pod, a 1991 album by Ween
- Pod (amp modeler), a line of guitar amp modelers by Line 6
- "POD" (song), a 2006 song by Tenacious D from The Pick of Destiny
- "10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod" or "Pod", a 2015 song on the deluxe edition of Presence by Led Zeppelin
Transportation
[edit]- Gun pod, a detachable weapons pack
- Targeting pod, a target designation tool used by ground-attack aircraft
- Pod (vehicle), in the proposed ULTra personal rapid transit system
- Engine pod or nacelle, a streamlined aircraft engine enclosure
- Escape pod, a small capsule to escape a vessel in an emergency
- Pod propulsion, ship propulsion method also known as an azimuth thruster
- POD, an abbreviation for port of discharge
Other uses
[edit]- Pod (caste) (Poundra), a scheduled caste in India
- Pod (Pokémon) or Chili
- Pod (sculpture), a sculpture by Pete Beeman
- POD (video game), a 1997 racing game
- Proof of Destruction, a 1987 video game, also known as P.O.D.
- Podcast, a form of digital media
- Pod Children's Charity, an English charity
- Coffee pod, ground coffee in a filter container
- Pod hotel, cheap accommodation with very small rooms
- Laundry detergent pod
- Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation
- Point of difference between products
- Point of divergence of an alternate history from actual history
- Print on demand or publishing on demand
- Proof of delivery of an item
- Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent
- Pod, 2022 novel by Laline Paull
- Pod, a format used by Current TV
- Probability of detection, a nondestructive testing term
- Proper Orthogonal Decomposition or principal components analysis, in statistics
- POD, an acronym for postoperative delirium
- Sarco pod, a euthanasia device
- POD, abbreviation used in hospitals for foot care (podiatry)
See also
[edit]- iPod, a portable media player designed by Apple Inc.
- PODS (disambiguation)
- PPOD (disambiguation)