POU or pou may refer to:
People
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Pou (surname)
Pou () is a Catalan language, Catalan surname; a topographic name for someone who lived by a well, ''pou'' ‘well’ (Latin ''puteus'' ‘well’, ‘pit’).
Notable people with the name include:
* The New Orleans physician at the center of the ...
, a surname
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Chu Pou
Chu Pou (303 – 1 January 350), courtesy name Jiye, was a Chinese military general and politician of the Eastern Jin. His daughter was Chu Suanzi, the wife of Emperor Kang of Jin and empress dowager to three subsequent emperors. He was at first ...
(303–350), Chinese general and politician
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Pou Temara
Sir William Te Rangiua "Pou" Temara (born 1948) is a New Zealand academic. He is professor of Māori language and tikanga Māori (practices) at Waikato University and a cultural authority on (oratory), ''whakapapa'' (genealogy) and ''karakia'' ...
(born 1948), New Zealand Māori academic
Codes
* POU, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for
Hudson Valley Regional Airport, New York, United States
* POU, Amtrak station code for
Poughkeepsie station, a rail station in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
* pou, deprecated ISO 639-3 code for the Southern
Poqomam language, spoken in Guatemala
Other uses
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''Pou'' (video game), a 2012 video game
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Pou (deity)
Tangaroa (Takaroa in the South Island) is the great of the sea, lakes, rivers, and creatures that live within them, especially fish, in Māori mythology. As Tangaroa-whakamau-tai he exercises control over the tides. He is sometimes depicted as ...
, a Moriori deity.
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POU domain
POU (pronounced 'pow') is a family of proteins that have well-conserved homeodomains.
Etymology
The acronym POU is derived from the names of three transcription
factors:
* the Pituitary-specific Pit-1
* the Octamer transcription factor protei ...
, the conserved region in the POU family of proteins
* Point of use (POU) water treatment equipment, also called
portable water purification
Portable water purification devices are self-contained, easily transported units used to purify water from untreated sources (such as rivers, lakes, and wells) for drinking purposes. Their main function is to eliminate pathogens, and often als ...
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