# Roc

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**Roc**, **roc**, **ROC**, or **R.O.C.** may refer to:

## People

- [Roch](/source/Roch) (c. 1348 – 1376), Occitan saint called Roc in Catalan
- [Agustí Roc](/source/Agust%C3%AD_Roc) (born 1971), Spanish ski mountaineer
- [Margaret Roc](/source/Margaret_Roc) (born 1945), Australian author
- [Patricia Roc](/source/Patricia_Roc) (1915–2003), British actress
- [Roc Alexander](/source/Roc_Alexander) (born 1981), American football player
- [Roche Braziliano](/source/Roche_Braziliano) (fl. 1630–1671), also spelled Roc, Dutch pirate
- [Roc Kirby](/source/Roc_Kirby) (1918–2008), Australian businessman
- [Roc Oliva](/source/Roc_Oliva) (born 1989), Spanish field hockey player
- [Roc Raida](/source/Roc_Raida) (1972–2009), American disc jockey, turntablist and producer
- [Roc Riggio](/source/Roc_Riggio) (born 2002), American baseball player
- [Roc Taylor](/source/Roc_Taylor) (born 2002), American football player
- [Roc Thomas](/source/Roc_Thomas) (born 1995), American football player
- [The R.O.C. (rapper)](/source/The_R.O.C._(rapper)) (born 1973), American rapper
- [Ste V Roc](/source/Ste_V_Roc) (born 1977), Irish hip-hop artist

## Places

- [Republic of China](/source/Republic_of_China), the official name of Taiwan - [Republic of China (1912–1949)](/source/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949)), the internationally recognized government of China prior to the retreat of the Kuomintang to Taiwan and the establishment of the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party
- [Republic of the Congo](/source/Republic_of_the_Congo), the official name of a Central African country
- [Republic of Cyprus](/source/Republic_of_Cyprus), the official name of Cyprus
- [Rest of Canada](/source/Rest_of_Canada), term for everywhere in Canada outside Quebec
- [Roč](/source/Ro%C4%8D), a town in Croatia
- [Le Roc](/source/Le_Roc), a commune in France
- [Ross and Cromarty](/source/Ross_and_Cromarty), registration county in Scotland, Chapman code
- [Republic of Crimea (Russia)](/source/Republic_of_Crimea_(Russia)), a disputed Russian republic
- Republic of [Cuba](/source/Cuba), the official name of Cuba
- [Roc (Gran Paradiso)](/source/Roc_(Gran_Paradiso)), a mountain in Italy

## Companies and organizations

- [Radar Operations Center](/source/Radar_Operations_Center), US National Weather Service unit
- [Regional Organisations of Councils](/source/Regional_Organisations_of_Councils), voluntary groupings of neighbouring councils in Australia
- [Registrar of Companies, India](/source/Registrar_of_Companies,_India)
- [Remote Operations Center](/source/Remote_Operations_Center), a National Security Agency facility in Fort Meade, Maryland
- [Restaurant Opportunities Center](/source/Restaurant_Opportunities_Center), a union-supported labor group
- [Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium](/source/Resuscitation_Outcomes_Consortium), a network of clinical trial sites
- [Right of Centre](/source/Right_of_Centre), a short-lived New Zealand political party
- [Roc-A-Fella Records](/source/Roc-A-Fella_Records), known as "the Roc"
- [Roc Books](/source/Roc_Books), a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group
- [Roc Nation](/source/Roc_Nation), an American entertainment company
- [Roc Oil Company](/source/Roc_Oil_Company), based in Sydney, Australia
- [Royal Observer Corps](/source/Royal_Observer_Corps), a former British civil defence organisation
- [Romanian Orthodox Church](/source/Romanian_Orthodox_Church)
- [Russian Orthodox Church](/source/Russian_Orthodox_Church)

## Entertainment

- [R.O.C. (band)](/source/R.O.C._(band)), British electronica group founded in 1983 by Fred Browning and Patrick Nicholson
- [Roc (*Dungeons & Dragons*)](/source/Roc_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)), a role-playing version of the mythical bird
- ["Roc" (Nâdiya song)](/source/Roc_(N%C3%A2diya_song)), 2006
- [Roc (The-Dream song)](/source/Roc_(The-Dream_song))
- [*Roc* (TV series)](/source/Roc_(TV_series)), an American sitcom which aired 1991–94

## Finance

- [Rate of change (technical analysis)](/source/Rate_of_change_(technical_analysis))
- [Return of capital](/source/Return_of_capital)
- [Return on capital](/source/Return_on_capital)
- [Return on costs](/source/Return_on_costs)

## Mathematics

- [Radius of curvature (optics)](/source/Radius_of_curvature_(optics))
- [Receiver operating characteristic](/source/Receiver_operating_characteristic), ROC curve (statistics)
- [Radius of convergence](/source/Radius_of_convergence)

## Transport and vehicles

- [Rail operating centre](/source/Rail_operating_centre), a type of railway signalling centre in the UK
- [Rate of climb](/source/Rate_of_climb), in aviation
- [Greater Rochester International Airport](/source/Greater_Rochester_International_Airport) (IATA airport code ROC), Rochester, Monroe County, New York State, USA
- [Roche railway station](/source/Roche_railway_station) (station code ROC), Roche, Cornwall, England, UK
- "Roc" (N351SL), the first (and only) [Scaled Composites *Stratolaunch*](/source/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch) (Model 351), an aircraft designed to carry air-launch-to-orbit rockets
- [Blackburn *Roc*](/source/Blackburn_Roc), a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II

## Sports

- [Russian Olympic Committee](/source/Russian_Olympic_Committee) - ROC, the IOC code used for Russian Olympic Committee athletes: - [Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Olympics](/source/Russian_Olympic_Committee_athletes_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics) - [Russian Olympic Committee athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics](/source/Russian_Olympic_Committee_athletes_at_the_2022_Winter_Olympics)
- [Race of Champions (disambiguation)](/source/Race_of_Champions_(disambiguation)) - [Race of Champions](/source/Race_of_Champions), motorsport event combining track and rally drivers - [Race of Champions (modified racing)](/source/Race_of_Champions_(modified_racing)), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars
- Roc, the name of the University of Pittsburgh's costumed panther mascot (see [Panthers of Pittsburgh](/source/Panthers_of_Pittsburgh))
- ROC, the IOC code formerly used for [Republic of China at the Olympics](/source/Republic_of_China_at_the_Olympics) 1924–1948

## Other uses

- [Roc (mythology)](/source/Roc_(mythology)), a mythical giant bird
- [Roglai language](/source/Roglai_language) (ISO 639 language code roc)
- [Renewables Obligation](/source/Renewables_Obligation) certificates, used in the UK's electricity supply industry
- [Republic of Chocolate](/source/Republic_of_Chocolate)
- [Resource-oriented computing](/source/Resource-oriented_computing)
- [Rocuronium bromide](/source/Rocuronium_bromide), colloquially called "roc" or "ROC"

## See also

- [Rock (disambiguation)](/source/Rock_(disambiguation))
- [ROCS (disambiguation)](/source/ROCS_(disambiguation))
- [Rok (disambiguation)](/source/Rok_(disambiguation))
- [Roque (disambiguation)](/source/Roque_(disambiguation))

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