Pod

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Pod or POD may refer to:

Biology

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

See also

  • iPod, a portable media player designed by Apple Inc.
  • PODS (disambiguation)
  • PPOD (disambiguation)
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