Pod

Pod or POD may refer to:

Biology and medicine

• 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 Greek-derived root meaning 'foot'
  • "-pod", a suffix used in taxonomy
  • POD, abbreviation used in hospitals for podiatry
• Sarco pod, a euthanasia device

Electronics, computing, and mathematics

• Protective Oceanic Device, an electronic shark repellent
• Pseudo open drain, an electronics interface technology
• Point of delivery (networking)
• Personal online data stores, storage of personal data for the web decentralization project Solid
• Pod, the basic scheduling unit in Kubernetes
• Plain Old Documentation, a documentation tool for the computer language Perl
• Plain old data in computing, data distinct from an object
• Proper orthogonal decomposition in the field of numerical simulation
• Proper Orthogonal Decomposition or principal components analysis, in statistics

Arts and media

Fictional entities

• 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

Other media

• Point of divergence of an alternate history from actual history
• Print on demand or publishing on demand
• Pod, a format used by Current TV
• Pod (film), an American horror film
• 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.
• Pod, 2022 novel by Laline Paull

Transportation

• 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

Other uses

• Pod (caste), former name of Indian caste now known as Poundra
• Pod Children's Charity, an English charity
• Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation
• Coffee pod, ground coffee in a filter container
• Pod hotel, cheap accommodation with very small rooms
• Laundry detergent pod
• Proof of delivery of an item
• Probability of detection, a nondestructive testing term
• Gun pod, a detachable weapons pack
• Targeting pod, a target designation tool used by ground-attack aircraft
• POD, Payable on Death, a form of account titling; see Totten trust

See also

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