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P.O.D.
/POD/ [rare; sometimes POD without the periods] Acronym for Piece Of Data or Plain Old Data (as opposed to a code section, or a section containing mixed code and data). The latter expansion was in use by the C++ standards committee, for which it indicated a struct or class which only contains data (as in C), distinguished from one which has a constructor and member functions. There are things which you can do with a P.O.D. which you can't with a more general class.