Orb

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The word "Orb", from the Latin orbis 'circle', is another name for a round object, especially a disk or a sphere.

Orb may refer to:

• Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
• Orb (photographic), an unexpected 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
• Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality 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
• a type of regalia known as a globus cruciger (Latin for 'cross-bearing globe'), as in "Orb and Sceptre"
  • Sovereign's Orb (a globus cruciger) is one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
• Orb Drive, a 3.5" removable hard disk drive
• Orb River, empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France
• Bad Orb, a town in Hesse state, Germany

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 casualties of the Iraq War
• Occasional Recuperational Break, an entitlement for staff of the United Nations serving in hardship locations
• Orebro (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 can be:

• Baghdad International Airport, the former ICAO code
• Open Relay Behavior-modification System, a DNSBL with the acronym ORBS.
• as a plural, a euphemism for buttocks (semi-spheres)