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Orb may refer to:
Places
- Orb (river), empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France
- Bad Orb, a town in Hessen state, Germany
Culture, entertainment and media
Art and royal regalia
- Globus cruciger, a hand-sized sphere over which the Christian cross is set, held by a monarch or by Christ in art
- Sovereign's Orb, one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
Published media
- Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
- Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
- Orb Speculative Fiction, also known simply as Orb, an Australian speculative fiction magazine
- Bajoran orbs, fictional artifacts from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; they are hourglass-shaped but still called orbs
- Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed
Music
- The Orb, a British electronic music group
- O.R.B. (band) - Irish band, formerly known as The Original Rude Boys
- Orbs (band), a rock band featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames
- Orb (album), a 2007 album by Alastair Galbraith
Other
- The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
Computing
- Orb (software) is a free streaming software for the personal laptop
- Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
- ORB (feature descriptor), an acronym for Oriented FAST Rotated BRIEF, a visual feature descriptor
Celestial matters
- Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
- Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
Other
- Orb web, a type of spider web
- Orb (horse), winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
- Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact
- Yard globe, also known as an orb
Technology
- O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game developed and published by Strategy First, Inc.
- Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
- Organic radical battery, a battery to run a PC during power interruption under development at NEC Corporation
- The stock ticker symbol of Orbital Sciences Corporation
Transport
- Örebro (Örebro/Bofors Airport), the three-letter airport code for the town in central Sweden
- Old Orchard Beach (Amtrak station), Maine, United States; Amtrak station code ORB
Media and entertainment
- O.R.B. (band), an Irish acoustic hip hop band
- Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcaster
- The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group
Other
- Order book for Retail Bonds, a system on the London Stock Exchange for trading in corporate bonds and UK government bonds
- ORB International, an polling agency located in London, see ORB survey of Iraq War casualties
- Occasional Recuperational Break, an entitlement for staff of the United Nations serving in hardship locations
ORBS may refer to:
- Baghdad International Airport, the former ICAO code
- Open Relay Behavior-modification System, a DNSBL with the acronym ORBS
See also
- Orbis (disambiguation)