Pod

Pod can refer to:

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• 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.
• The iPod music player marketed by Apple Computer Inc.
• Pod, a district in northern Germany, near the town of Wismar.
• The rock album Pod by The Breeders.
• The 1991 album The Pod by Ween.
• A prime 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 single node of a directory when used in conjuction with Podcasting.
• A tripod.

POD can refer to:

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• POD - Plain Old Documentation.
• POD - Acronym for Print on demand (sometimes also Publishing on Demand).
• POD - A racing game, one of the first games to use the MMX instruction set.
• PODS - Acronym for Point of Distributed Sound Podcasting or PODS and P.O.D.S.
• P.O.D. - a southern California-based rock band whose initials stand for Payable on Death.
• Planet of Death, aka Advanture A
• Proper orthogonal decomposition
• POD - Family of Digital Amp & Effects Modelers, Line 6.
• POD, point of divergence, the point at which an alternative history diverges from the normal timeline.
• POD - Acronym for Priest of Discord, an NPC in the EverQuest MMORPG.
• P.O.D - Acronym for "Prince of Darkness"
• POD - Acronym for the incoterm Proof of Delivery (a signed document proving delivery)
• POD - Acronym for "Pious Overly-Devotional", blog slang often found in American Catholic blogs.
• POD - Acronym for "Plain Old Data", term for all data types from the C programming language in C++.
• POD - Acronym for "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 (a POD account)