Poi or POI may refer to:
Art and culture
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''Poi'' (film), a 2006 Tamil-language film
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Poi (dessert)
Poi is a traditional Samoan dessert made from mashing overripe bananas with coconut milk into a smooth paste. The dessert is usually eaten chilled, traditionally by mixing cold water into the paste, with modern recipes using crushed ice instead. ...
, a traditional banana dessert from Samoa
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Poi (food)
Poi is a traditional staple food in the Polynesian diet, made from taro.
Traditional poi is produced by mashing cooked starch on a wooden pounding board, with a carved pestle made from basalt, calcite, coral or wood. Modern methods use an indu ...
, the traditional staple food in native cuisine of Hawaii
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Poi (performance art)
Poi is a performing art and also the name of the equipment used for its performance. As a skill toy, poi is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity play or an object manipulation. As a performance art, poi involves swinging tethered we ...
, a style of performing art
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Sierra Popoluca
Sierra Popoluca, also known as Soteapanec, Soteapan Zoque, or Highland Popoluca, is a developing Mixe-Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch. It has 35,050 speakers (INALI, 2009)INALI (2009)''Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales: Vari ...
language, ISO 639-3 language code poi
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''Poi'' (video game), a 2017 independent video game
Places
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Poi, Pakistan
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Poi, Ukhrul, India
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Poi, Wallis and Futuna
Poi is a village in Wallis and Futuna. It is located in Alo District
Alo (also known unofficially as Tu`a or the Kingdom of Futuna) is one of three official chiefdoms of the French territory of Wallis and Futuna, in Oceania, in the South Pacifi ...
* Poi, a Tibetan pinyin representation of
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...
Politics
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Independent Workers' Party (''Parti ouvrier indépendant'', POI), a French far-left political party
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Internationalist Workers Party The Internationalist Workers Party (Parti ouvrier internationaliste, POI) was a French Trotskyist party established in 1936 after the exclusion of militant Trotskyists from the French Section of the Workers' International in 1935 and dissolved in 1 ...
(''Parti ouvrier internationaliste'', POI), a French Trotskyist political party
Other uses
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Apache POI
The Apache () are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbreño, Ndendahe (Bedonkohe or Mogollon and Nednhi or Carrizaleño and ...
, a project run by the Apache Software Foundation
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Hawaiian Poi Dog
The Hawaiian Poi Dog ( haw, ʻīlio or ''ʻīlio mākuʻe'') is an extinct breed of pariah dog from Hawaiʻi which was used by Native Hawaiians as a spiritual protector of children and as a source of food.
History
The original Hawaiian poi ...
, an extinct breed of dog
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Person of interest (disambiguation)
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Point of interaction
The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice f ...
(POI), a component in point of sale equipment
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Points of interconnect (POI), in the Australian National Broadband Network
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Point of interest
A point of interest (POI) is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting. An example is a point on the Earth representing the location of the Eiffel Tower, or a point on Mars representing the location of its highest m ...
, a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting
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Point of interface In telecommunications a point of interface (POI) is used to show the physical interface between two different carriers, such as a local exchange carrier (LEC) and a wireless carrier, or an LEC and an IntereXchange Carrier (IXC). This demarcation po ...
(POI), in telecommunications
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Primary ovarian insufficiency
Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) (also called premature ovarian insufficiency, premature menopause, and premature ovarian failure) is the partial or total loss of reproductive and hormonal function of the ovaries before age 40 because of Ovari ...
(POI), partial or total of function of the ovaries
See also
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Postorgasmic illness syndrome
Postorgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) is a syndrome in which people have chronic physical and cognitive symptoms following ejaculation. The symptoms usually onset within seconds, minutes, or hours, and last for up to a week. The cause and prevalen ...
(POIS)
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