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. The term may also refer to one of the following. gate SG-1.
- The Tears of the Prophets, religious artefacts in the fictional Star Trek: Deep Space Nine universe, are commonly known as Orbs.
- Orb is the world in which the Way of the Tiger gamebooks are set.
- Orb Union, a nation in Gundam's Cosmic Era timeline.
- Orb (Software) is a free streaming software for PC.
- Orb (video game) is a game for Nintendo's Wii.
- Bad Orb, a town in Hesse state, Germany.
- Orb Drive is a 3.5" removable hard disk drive.
- The Orb in the "Orb and Sceptre" is a type of regalia known as a globus cruciger (Latin for 'cross-bearing globe').
- The Sovereign's Orb (a the Golfe du Lion in southern France.
- Orb (paranormal) is a phenomenon that can be seen by some people with the naked eye, though more usually arglobus cruciger) is one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.
- The Orb River empties into e captured on camera, considered by some to be paranormal and by others to be caused by the camera flash reflecting off dust.
- Orb (Charmed) — a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed; still in fiction, the verb to orb is used for the same as well as for SF-technology to that effect, as in Star5" removable hard disk drive.
- The Orb is a small, silver, spherical prop used in the movie Sleeper. It induces a feeling of well-being when held.
- The Orb is a British electronic music group.
ORB is also an acronym or abbreviation for:
- Object request broker, a distributed computing concept.
- The three letter airport code for the Town of Orebro (Örebro/Bofors Airport) in central Sweden.
- Organic radical battery, a battery to run a PC during power interruption under development at NEC Corporation.
- The computer game O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, developed and published by Strategy First, Inc.
- Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcaster.
ORBS can be:
- Open Relay Behavior-modification System, a DNSBL with the acronym ORBS.
- The plural of Orb (a round object, see above), which is used as
- a euphemism for buttocks (semi-spheres)
- The former ICAO code for Baghdad International Airport
