Organizations

• National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
• National Oil Corporation the national oil company of Libya
• National Olympic Committee, a group eligible to enter athletes and teams into an Olympic Games
• Nippon Oil Corporation, a Japanese company
• Northrop Grumman, its stock symbol
• Nantahala Outdoor Center, a river outfitter in western North Carolina.
• Northern Oklahoma College, sometimes referred to as NOC, a community college located in Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

Events/entertainment

• Night of Champions, a bodybuilding contest held in New York
• WWE Night of Champions, a WWE pay per view

Computer/technology terms

• Network On Chip, a term in electronic system design
• Network operations center, a term in computer networking that defines one or more locations from which control is exercised over a computer or telecommunications network, or part thereof; also can refer to the personnel working there
• NOCH, also known as NOC, is a powerful and open source code molecular explorer

Miscellanea

• National oil company, as opposed to IOC, which stands for International Oil Company
• Non-official cover, an espionage and intelligence term
• No overall control, a term used in the United Kingdom to refer to a situation analogous to a hung parliament, whereby no political party commands an absolute majority on a local council
• National Occupational Classification, a Canadian classification system of occupations
• Nursing Outcomes Classification
• Nocturnal Sector, an area of the Biologic Space Laboratories in the video game Metroid Fusion