Ord

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Ord may refer to:

• Ord (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Ord (Dragon Tales), one of the characters in the children's television series Dragon Tales on PBS

People:

• Boris Ord, a composer
• Edward Ord, a Major General who served in U.S. Army during the 19th century
• George Ord, a zoologist
• William Ord (1781-1855), an English Whig politician and landowner,

Places:

• Ord, Northumberland, England
• Muir of Ord, a village in Highland, Scotland
• Ord River, Western Australia, Australia
• Fort Ord, California, United States
• Ord, Nebraska, United States

Mathematics:

• Ord = the category of preordered sets
• Ord = the proper class of all ordinal numbers.
• ord(V) = the order type of a well-ordered set V.

ORD may stand for:

• O'Hare International Airport (IATA airport code "ORD"), an airport in Chicago, U.S.
• Object-relational database
• Office of Rare Diseases of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Optical rotatory dispersion (see circular dichroism), a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules

Fiction:

• Ord (Iron Kingdoms), a nation in the Privateer Press Full Metal Fantasy Genre