English

Alternative spellings

• roche
• rukh
• rok

Etymology

Pronunciation

• , /rɒk/, /rQk/

  Rhymes with: -ɒk

Noun

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

"By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• /ʁɔk/|lang=fr

Noun

1. rock (natural mineral aggregate)

Interlingua

Noun

1. rook i chess piece

• Roc Books, a paperback science fiction and fantasy imprint of Penguin Group
• Roc (mythology), a mythical giant bird
• Roc (musician), the Indian American singer-songwriter guitarist
• "Roc" (song), the second single release from Nâdiya's eponymous album.
• Roc (TV series), an American television sitcom starring Charles S. Dutton which aired 1991 – 1994
• The Blackburn Roc, was a British naval fighter-bomber and turret fighter aircraft of World War II
• Roc-A-Fella Records, a hip hop record label founded by Damon Dash and Jay-Z
• Roch, fourteenth century Occitan saint is called Roc in Catalan
• Roč is a historic town in Croatia
• Rochester, New York
• Rochester Hills, Michigan
• A surname, held by
  • Agustí Roc, Spanish ski mountaineer
  • Margaret Roc, Australian author
  • Patricia Roc, British actress
  • Ste V Roc, Irish hip-hop artist

ROC

• Republic of China (Taiwan, Pescadores, Kinmen and Matsu)
• Republic of Cuba
• Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
• ROC (publisher), a primarily fantasy-oriented imprint of the publishing company New American Library
• Greater Rochester International Airport, via its IATA airport code
• Rochester, New York, as a colloquialism based on its IATA airport code
• rate of change (technical analysis)
• Receiver Operating Characteristic (signal detection theory or epidemiology)
• In, biochemistry: Receptor-operated calcium channel
• region of convergence (relates to the Laplace transform)
• Renewables Obligation Certificates - used in UK's electricity supply industry
• Return on capital
• Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, a computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
• Race of Champions, motorsport event combining track and rally drivers
• 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
• radius of curvature
• Rest of Canada, slang for Canada other than Quebec
• Right of Centre, a shortlived New Zealand political party
• Russian Orthodox Church
• 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.
• Remote Operations Center
• ROC curve or Receiver Operating Characteristic curve, a plot of the fraction of true positives vs. the fraction of false positives
• The ROC, a horrorcore artist from Detroit, Michigan