BOC

BOC may refer to

Banks:

  • Bank of Ceylon, a major government-owned commercial bank
  • Bank of Canada, Canada's central bank
  • Bank of China, a major state-owned bank in the People's Republic of China
  • Bank of Cyprus, a major Cypriot financial institution

Companies:

  • The BOC Group (more commonly known as "BOC"), a multi-national industrial gas company, known as the British Oxygen Company prior to 1975
  • Bell Operating Company, any one of the 24 local telephone companies that AT&T either owned or had a stake in prior to January 1, 1984
  • Board of Certification, Inc., a corporation that issues certifications for entry-level Athletic Trainers

Film:

  • Bride of Chucky

Music:

  • Baltimore Opera Company, an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Blue Öyster Cult, an American psychedelic/heavy metal band
  • Boston Opera Company, an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Boards of Canada, a Scottish electronic music duo
  • Bump of Chicken, a Japanese rock band

Names:

  • Emil Boc, Romanian politician

Organizations:

  • Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, an Australian birding association
  • British Ornithologists' Club
  • British Orthodox Church, an autonomous Oriental Orthodox Church under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
  • Bulgarian Olympic Committee, the National Olympic Committee of Bulgaria, part of the International Olympic Committee
  • Bulgarian Orthodox Church, an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with adherents in the Republic of Bulgaria and worldwide

Places:

  • Bay of Campeche, bay in southwestern Gulf of Mexico

Technology:

  • Binary offset carrier modulation - a digital modulation employed in Galileo and modernized GPS systems

Television:

  • Beyond Our Control

Other:

  • Battle of Chancellorsville, a humiliating Union defeat, that occurred during the American Civil War
  • BOC (gene), human gene
  • The BOC Challenge, now renamed the VELUX 5 Oceans Race, a round-the-world single-handed sailing yacht race named after its then main sponsor the BOC Group listed above
  • Bottom of container, a parachute deployment system.
  • Biology of the Cell, an academic journal in biology
  • Bloque Obrero y Campesino, (Spanish: "Workers and Peasants' Bloc"), a former a leftwing group in Spain, associated with the international Right Opposition, extant from 1931 to 1935
  • tert-butoxycarbonyl, abbreviated as "Boc", "BOC" or "t-Boc"), a protecting group. See Di-tert-butyl dicarbonate
  • Body of Christ
  • British Overseas citizen, one kind of British nationality
  • Di-tert-butyl dicarbonate, a chemical reagent
  • The "Bag of Crap" sometimes sold by Woot.
  • Blackbird Owners Club, Motorclub for people who own a Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird and/or Honda X-11