title: BOC
text: # BOC
  
  BOC is the abbreviation of:
  
  * Battle of Chancellorsville, during the American Civil War
  * Biology of the Cell, an academic journal in biology
  * Blackbird Owners Club, Motorclub for people who own a Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird and/or Honda X-11
  * Bloque Obrero y Campesino, (Spanish: "Workers and Peasants' Bloc"), a former leftwing group in Spain, associated with the international Right Opposition, extant from 1931 to 1935
  * BOC (gene), human gene
  * BOC Challenge, now renamed the Velux 5 Oceans Race, a round-the-world single-handed sailing yacht race named after its then main sponsor BOC
  * Body of Christ, a term in Christian theology with two separate connotations
  * Bottom of container, a parachute deployment system.
  * British Overseas citizen, one kind of British nationality
  * tert-Butoxycarbonyl, abbreviated as "Boc", "BOC" or "t-Boc", a protecting group used in organic chemistry
  
  Banks:
  
  * Bank of Canada, Canada's central bank
  * Bank of Ceylon, a major government-owned commercial bank in Sri Lanka
  * Bank of China, a major state-owned bank in the People's Republic of China
  * Bank of Cyprus, a major Cypriot financial institution
  
  Companies:
  
  * 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
  * BOC (company), British based industrial gas company, known as Brin's Oxygen Company prior to 1906, and the British Oxygen Company prior to 1975
  
  Film:
  
  Music:
  
  * Baltimore Opera Company, an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  * Blue Öyster Cult, an American psychedelic/heavy metal band
  * Boards of Canada, a Scottish electronic music duo
  * Boston Opera Company, an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts
  * Bump of Chicken, a Japanese rock band
  
  Names:
  
  Organizations:
  
  * Baystate Organic Certifiers, which is an organic-certifying agent owned by Massachusetts Independent Certification, Inc. (MICI) and accredited by National Organic Program (NOP)
  * Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, an Australian birding association
  * British Ornithologists' Club, aims to promote discussion between members and others interested in ornithology, and to facilitate the dissemination of scientific information concerned with ornithology
  * 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
  * Bureau of Customs, a Philippine government agency under the Department of Finance
  
  Places:
  
  * Bay of Campeche, a bay in southwestern Gulf of Mexico
  * Boca Raton, Florida
     * Boca Raton station (Brightline)
  
  Technology:
  
  Television:
  
  