Orb
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Orb or ORB may refer to:
- Sphere
- Globus cruciger, ceremonial orb
- Sovereign's Orb, a crown jewel of the United Kingdom
- Crystal ball
Places
[edit | edit source]- Orb (river), in southern France
- Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany
Literature, radio, film, television
[edit | edit source]- Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
- Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- "Orb" (Adventure Time), a television episode
- Orb Speculative Fiction, an Australian magazine by Orb Publications
- Ultraman Orb, a 2016 Japanese tokusatsu television series
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, a Japanese manga and anime series about the rise of heliocentrism
Music
[edit | edit source]- The Orb, a British electronic music group
- O.R.B. (band) (formerly The Original Rude Boys), an Irish acoustic group
- Orbs (band), a rock group featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames
- Orb (Boiled in Lead album), 1990
- Orb (Alastair Galbraith album), 2007
Computing
[edit | edit source]- Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
- Orb (software), a streaming media application
- Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
- Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), an image processing method
- Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), a defunct system for blocking suspected Internet spam sites
Celestial matters
[edit | edit source]- Orb (astrology), a measurement of object interaction
- Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
Transport
[edit | edit source]- ORB, IATA code for Örebro Airport in Sweden
- ORB, FAA code for Orr Regional Airport in Minnesota
- ORB, Amtrak code for Old Orchard Beach station in Maine
- ORBS, former ICAO code for Baghdad International Airport
Business
[edit | edit source]- ORB International, a London-based polling agency
- Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
- Orbital Sciences Corporation (former NYSE stock ticker: ORB)
- Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization
Other
[edit | edit source]- O-ring boss seal, a hydraulic fitting
- Organic radical battery, a type of rechargeable battery
- The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
- O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game
- Orb web, a type of spider web
- Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
- Orb (optics), an optical artifact
See also
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