Pod

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Template:Wiktionarypar Pod can refer to:

• A method of propulsion for ships, also known as Azimuth thruster
• The seed-case of a flowering plant, particularly of the pea family Leguminosae, and most often of the edible pea.
• A social group of cetaceans.
• Pod, a district in northern Germany, near the town of Wismar.
• Pod, a location in the upper Vrbas River valley in Bosnia-Hercegovina where settlements of a Bronze Age people identified by some archaeologists with the "Proto-Illyrians" have been found.
• The rock album Pod by The Breeders.
• The 1991 album The Pod by Ween.
• A Welsh poet, real name Arwel Roberts.
• Cannabis, as referenced in William S. Burroughs' novel, Naked Lunch.
• An aerodynamic container to be mounted under an aeroplane, containing, e.g., electronic equipment or rockets
• A tripod.
• A short video, usually non-professionally produced, also known as Viewer Created Content on the TV show Current TV.
• An Apple iPod
• A packet of fine coffee grounds packaged for use in espresso machines [1]

When all letters are capitalized, POD can refer to:

• POD - Process On Demand see the concept created by [SchedulR]
• POD - Family of Digital Amplifier and Effects Modelers, from the manufacturer Line 6
• P.O.D. - a southern California-based rock band whose name is derived from the acronym for the term "Payable On Death" (see below)
• An acronym for
  • "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," often used to describe a bank account that, upon the death of the account holder, will be paid out to a beneficiary (e.g., "a POD account")
  • Ping of death
  • "Pious Overly-Devotional", slang often found in American Catholic blogs.
  • Plain Old Data Structures, term for all data types from the C programming language in [[C++]].
  • Plain Old Documentation
  • 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", used in the field of digital cable television set top boxes relating to adding functionality to those boxes
  • Point of Divergence, the point at which an alternate history diverges from the normal timeline.
  • "Pot Over-Dose" as described by the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  • Prince of Darkness, i.e. The Devil
  • Print on demand (sometimes also "publishing on demand")
  • Priest of Discord, an character in the EverQuest game
  • "Proof of Delivery", the Incoterm for a signed document proving delivery
  • Proper orthogonal decomposition
  • Problem Of the Day
  • an improperly backformed singular of PODS, standing for Portable On Demand Storage

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