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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
*[[Characters from the Incarnations of Immortality#Orb|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 [[buttock]]s (semi-spheres)
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