Ord or ORD may refer to:
Places
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Ord of Caithness
The Ord of Caithness is a granite mass on the east coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, on the boundary of the counties Sutherland and Caithness. It is north-east of Helmsdale. It forms a headland high, known as Ord Point. The A9 ...
, landform in north-east Scotland
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Ord, Nebraska
Ord is a city in Valley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,112 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Valley County.
History
Ord was platted in 1874. It is named in honor of Civil War general Edward O. C. Ord. Under t ...
, USA
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Ord, Northumberland, England
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Muir of Ord
Muir of Ord ( gd, Am Blàr Dubh) is a village in Easter Ross, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated near the western end of the Black Isle, about west of the city of Inverness and south of Dingwall. The village has a populati ...
, village in Highland, Scotland
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Ord, Skye, a place near Tarskavaig
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Ord River
The Ord River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The river's catchment covers .
The lower Ord River and the conjunction with Cambridge Gulf create the most northern estuarine environment in Western Australia.
The Ord ...
, Western Australia
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Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area
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Ord River Floodplain
The Ord River floodplain is the floodplain of the lower Ord River in the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. It lies within the Victoria Bonaparte IBRA bioregion and contains river, seasonal ...
, Ramsar Site
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Ord Victoria Plain
The Ord Victoria Plain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, comprising .
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Ord Township, Nebraska (disambiguation), name of two townships in Nebraska, USA
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East Ord
East Ord is a village in Northumberland, England about south west of Berwick Upon Tweed. It lies on the south bank of the River Tweed adjacent to the A1 Road.
History
The village was originally called Ord, with Middle Ord and West Ord bei ...
, Northumberland, UK
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Fort Ord
Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay of the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument, ...
, California, USA
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O'Hare International Airport (IATA airport code "ORD"), an airport in Chicago, U.S.
Mathematics
* Ord, the
category of preordered sets
In mathematics, the category Ord has preordered sets as objects and order-preserving functions as morphisms. This is a category because the composition of two order-preserving functions is order preserving and the identity map is order preserving ...
* Ord, the proper class of all
ordinal numbers
* ord(''V''), the
order type
In mathematics, especially in set theory, two ordered sets and are said to have the same order type if they are order isomorphic, that is, if there exists a bijection (each element pairs with exactly one in the other set) f\colon X \to Y such ...
of a well-ordered set ''V''
* ord
''n''(''a''), the
multiplicative order In number theory, given a positive integer ''n'' and an integer ''a'' coprime to ''n'', the multiplicative order of ''a'' modulo ''n'' is the smallest positive integer ''k'' such that a^k\ \equiv\ 1 \pmod n.
In other words, the multiplicative order ...
of ''a'' modulo ''n''
Businesses
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Ord Publishing
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology.
The company publi ...
, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
Fiction
* A prefix for several planets in the ''Star Wars'' universe, such as
Ord Mantell
The fictional universe of the '' Star Wars'' franchise features multiple planets and moons. While only the feature films and selected other works are considered canon to the franchise since the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Dis ...
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Ord (comics)
Ord is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted specifically as an enemy of the X-Men. He first appeared in ''Astonishing X-Men'' #1 in May 2004. He was c ...
, a Marvel Comics character
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Ord (Dragon Tales)
''Dragon Tales'' is an animated educational television, educational fantasy children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser and produced by Sony Pi ...
, one of the characters in the children's television series ''Dragon Tales'' on PBS
Other
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Ord (surname) Ord is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Boris Ord (1897–1961), British composer
* Edward Ord (1818–1883), Major General in the US Army
*George Ord (1781–1866), American naturalist, ornithologist and writer
*Harry Ord (18 ...
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Object-relational database
* Odinic Rite Deutschland, renamed
Verein für germanisches Heidentum
The Verein für germanisches Heidentum (), abbreviated VfgH, is a Germanic neopagan organisation in Germany. It began in 1994 as the German chapter of the British Odinic Rite and was called the Odinic Rite Deutschland. It became independent in 20 ...
in 2006, a neopagan organisation
* Office of Rare Diseases of the United States
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
(NIH)
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Optical rotatory dispersion, a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules
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