Orb 545355 226060633 2008-07-16T17:28:59Z MattieTK 434929 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/206.47.235.133|206.47.235.133]] (using [[WP:HG|Huggle]]) {{wiktionary}} 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) {{disambig}} [[de:ORB]] [[eo:ORB]] [[fr:Orb (homonymie)]] [[it:ORB]] [[lt:Rutulys (reikšmės)]] [[ja:オーブ]] [[sv:Orb]] [[zh:Orb]]