Pod

Pod or POD may refer to:

• Post Office Department of the United States

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

• 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

See also

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

1. P.O.D.
2. Print on demand
3. The Pod
4. Consumption of Tide Pods
5. Pod corn
6. Sarco pod
7. Pods
8. IPod
9. Sleep pod
10. Tide Pods
11. POD 2
12. Podcast
13. The Pod Generation
14. Gun pod
15. Pod People
16. Pod vegetable
17. AirPods
18. Cetacea
19. HomePod
20. Snow pea