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Roc, ROC or R.O.C. may refer to following:
Country
- Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan
- Republic of China, a former nationalist republic in all of China which is now in Taiwan
- Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville
People
- Roch, fourteenth century Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan
- Agustí Roc, Spanish ski mountaineer
- Margaret Roc, Australian author
- Patricia Roc, British actress
- Ste V Roc, Irish hip-hop artist
- Roc Alexander, American football player
- Roche Braziliano, also spelled Roc, 17th century Dutch pirate
- Roc Kirby, Australian businessman
- Roc Oliva, Spanish field hockey player
- Roc Raida, American disc jockey, turntablist and producer
Places
- Roč, a town in Croatia
- Le Roc, a commune in France
- Rest of Canada, term for everywhere in Canada but Quebec
Companies
- Roc Books, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group
- Roc Oil Company, based in Sydney, Australia
- Roc Nation, an American entertainment company
Entertainment
- R.O.C. (band), British electronica group founded in 1983 by Fred Browning and Patrick Nicholson
- Roc (Dungeons & Dragons), a role-playing version of the mythical bird
- "Roc" (song), from Nâdiya's eponymous album
- Roc (TV series), an American sitcom which aired 1991–94
Other uses
- Roc (mythology), a mythical giant bird
- Blackburn Roc, a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II
- Stratolaunch carrier aircraft, Scaled Composites Model 351, nicknamed "Roc"
- IATA airport code for Greater Rochester International Airport
- Roc, the name of the University of Pittsburgh's costumed panther mascot (see Panthers of Pittsburgh)
As an acronym or initialism
ROC or R.O.C. may refer to:
In biochemistry and medicine
- Receptor-operated calcium channel
- Rocuronium, a drug used in medical anesthesia
- Saquinavir, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV
- ROC, a domain in some genes, standing for Ras Of Complex proteins
In entertainment
- Reign of Chaos, a Warcraft computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment
- Rise of Cobra a GI Joe movie
In finance
In geography
- Republic of China (disambiguation); see also:
- Republic of China (1912–1949) for the state which existed on mainland China before its relocation to Taiwan and the founding of the People's Republic of China.
- Taiwan, which is officially known as the Republic of China
- Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
- Republic of Cuba
- Rest of Canada, slang for Canada excluding Quebec
- Rochester, New York, as a colloquialism based on its IATA airport code
- Republic of Canada, short-lived Republic established on Navy Island, near Niagara
In mathematics
- Radius of curvature (mathematics)
- Radius of curvature (optics)
- Receiver operating characteristic, ROC curve (statistics)
- Region of convergence (relates to the Laplace transform)
In organizations
- Radar Operations Center, the NWS unit that coordinates development, maintenance, and training on its weather radar network
- Regional Operations Center, a network of nine Federal Aviation Administration (US) Command Control Communication Centers
- Regional Organisations of Councils, voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia
- Restaurant Opportunities Center, a union-supported labor group
- Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, a network of clinical trial sites
- Richmond Outreach Center, a controversial church
- Right of Centre, a short-lived New Zealand political party
- Romanian Orthodox Church
- Royal Observer Corps, branch of the RAF and British air raid warning organisation (1926 to 1957), nuclear burst and fallout warning organisation (1957–1995), now disbanded
- Russian Orthodox Church
In sports
- Race of Champions (Brands Hatch), non-championship Formula One motor race in United Kingdom between 1967 and 1979, and again in 1983, the final non-championship F1 race
- Race of Champions (Modified), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars
- Race of Champions, motorsport event combining track and rally drivers
In other uses
- R.O.C. (rapper), American rapper
- RAID-On-Chip, hardware-based RAID controller
- Registrar of Companies
- Remote Operations Center
- Renewables Obligation Certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry
- Resource-oriented computing
- US Marine Reconnaissance Operations Center
See also
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