TOC

TOC or Toc may refer to:

Documents

• Table of contents found at the beginning of a book or document

Organisations

• Transnational organized crime
• The Thomson Corporation, by ticker symbol on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges
• Tactical operations center, a command post for police, paramilitary, or military operations
• Taste of Chaos, a winter/spring concert series
• Tournament of Champions (debate), a prestigious national high school debate tournament
• Train operating company in the UK
• The Objectivist Centre, part of The Atlas Society
• Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Lay Carmelites.
• Technical Oversight Committee^[1]

Places

• Monte Toc, a mountain in Italy known for a major landslide
• Toc, a village in Săvârșin Commune, Arad County, Romania

Science and technology

• Table of Contents, in optical disc authoring
• TOC protocol, an instant message communications protocol
• Translocon at the Outer membrane of Chloroplast, in Beta barrel
• Troponin C, part of the troponin complex in biochemistry
• Theory of computation, a branch of computer science
• Total organic carbon, used as a non-specific indicator of water quality or the amount of organic carbon in a geological formation, particularly the source rock for an oil play.
• TOC1 (gene), a gene that regulates circadian rhythm in plants

Other

• Theory of Constraints, an overall management philosophy
• Top of climb, an aviation term
• Teacher On Call, the same as a substitute teacher
• "T", in the World War I Western Front "signalese" and the RAF phonetic alphabet
• Theory of change, a methodology for planning, participation, and evaluation that is used in the philanthropy, not-for-profit and government sectors to promote social change. Theory of Change defines long-term goals and then maps backward to identify necessary preconditions.

See also

• TCO (disambiguation)

References