Orb
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Orb or Orbs may refer to:
Places and rivers
- Orb (river), a river in the Herault département of southern France that flows into the Mediterranean Sea
- Orb (Kinzig), a river of Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Kinzig
- Bad Orb, a town in Hesse, Germany
Literature, radio, film, television
- Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
- Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- Orb (Adventure Time), the first episode of the ninth season of Adventure Time
- 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
- Ultraman Orb (ウルトラマンオーブ Urutoraman Ōbu), a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions in 2016
- Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcaster
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 (Boiled in Lead album), a 1990 album by Boiled in Lead
- Orb (album), a 2007 album by Alastair Galbraith
- The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group
Computing
- Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
- Orb (software), freeware streaming software
- 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
- Organic radical battery, a battery to run a PC during power interruption under development at NEC Corporation
Celestial matters
- Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
- Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
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
Business
- ORB International, an polling agency located in London, see ORB survey of Iraq War casualties
- Orbital Sciences Corporation (stock ticker: ORB)
- Orbital ATK, the successor to Orbital Sciences Corporation
Other
- ORB (disco ball), a Burning Man exhibit
- 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
- The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
- O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game developed and published by Strategy First, Inc.
- Spider#Orb webs, a type of spider web
- Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
- Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact, sometimes claimed as evidence of spirits
- Yard globe, also known as an orb
- Occasional Recuperational Break, an entitlement for staff of the United Nations serving in hardship locations
ORBS
ORBS may refer to:
- Baghdad International Airport, the former ICAO code
- Open Relay Behavior-modification System, a DNSBL with the acronym ORBS
See also
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