Orb
The word "Orb", from the Latin orbis 'circle', is another name for a round object, especially a disk or a sphere.
Orb as a word
Orb may refer to:
- Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect it is carried by Queen Elizabeth 1
- Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact
- Orb (software) is a free streaming software for the personal computer
- Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
- The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
- Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
- Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed
- Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- The Orb, a British electronic music group
- Globus cruciger, a hand-sized sphere over which the Christian cross is set
- Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
- Orb (river), empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France
- Bad Orb, a town in Hessen state, Germany
- Orbs (band), a rock band featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before
- Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
- Orb web, a type of spider web
ORB as an initialism
ORB is an acronym or abbreviation for:
- O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a computer game developed and published by Strategy First, Inc.
- Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
- Opinion Research Business, an independent polling agency located in London, which, among many other surveys, conducted one that came to the conclusion that over a million Iraqis died between 2003 and 2007 due to violence - see ORB survey of Iraq War casualties
- Occasional Recuperational Break, an entitlement for staff of the United Nations serving in hardship locations
- Örebro (Örebro/Bofors Airport), the three-letter airport code for the town in central Sweden
- Organic radical battery, a battery to run a PC during power interruption under development at NEC Corporation
- Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcaster
- The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group
- Old Orchard Beach (Amtrak station), Maine, United States; Amtrak station code ORB
- The stock ticker symbol of Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbs
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