Odd means unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric.
Odd may also refer to:
Acronym
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ODD (Text Encoding Initiative)
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and main ...
("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing XML schemas
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Oodnadatta Airport
Oodnadatta Airport is an aerodrome that services Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia.
History
It was utilised by the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 34 Squadron to courier equipment and stores, transport troops and utilised by RAAF and Un ...
(IATA: ODD), South Australia
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Oppositional defiant disorder
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is listed in the DSM-5 under ''Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders'' and defined as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness". This behavior is us ...
, a mental disorder characterized by anger-guided, hostile behavior
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Operational due diligence
Operational due diligence (ODD) is the process by which a potential purchaser reviews the operational aspects of a target company during mergers and acquisitions. Most often ODDs are conducted in the industrial sector.
Process
The ODD review look ...
* Operational Design Domain (ODD) in case of autonomous cars
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Optical disc drive
In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only r ...
* ''ODD'', a 2007 play by
Hal Corley
Hal Corley is an American television writer and playwright. He was Associate Head Writer for ''All My Children'' and ''As The World Turns'', for which he won five Daytime Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild of America Awards. His plays have been d ...
about a teenager with oppositional defiant disorder
Mathematics
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Even and odd numbers
In mathematics, parity is the property of an integer of whether it is even or odd. An integer is even if it is a multiple of two, and odd if it is not.. For example, −4, 0, 82 are even because
\begin
-2 \cdot 2 &= -4 \\
0 \cdot 2 &= 0 \\
41 ...
, an integer is odd if dividing by two does not yield an integer
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Even and odd functions
In mathematics, even functions and odd functions are functions which satisfy particular symmetry relations, with respect to taking additive inverses. They are important in many areas of mathematical analysis, especially the theory of power seri ...
, a function is odd if ''f''(−''x'') = −''f''(''x'') for all ''x''
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Even and odd permutations
In mathematics, when ''X'' is a finite set with at least two elements, the permutations of ''X'' (i.e. the bijective functions from ''X'' to ''X'') fall into two classes of equal size: the even permutations and the odd permutations. If any total or ...
, a permutation of a finite set is odd if it is composed of an odd number of transpositions
Ships
* HNoMS ''Odd'', a
Storm-class patrol boat
The ''Storm''-class patrol boat was a series of fast patrol boats (FPB) consisting of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy.
In Norwegian these boats were called ''missilkanonbåter'' (MKB) meaning boats with missiles and guns. They were ...
of the Royal Norwegian Navy
* , a Norwegian whaler
Other
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Odd (name) Odd, a name of Old Norse origin (''Oddr''), the 11th most common male name in Norway. It is rarely used in other countries, though sometimes appearing in other Nordic countries. In Old Norse the word means sharp end of an arrow or edge of blade.
An ...
, a male name common in Norway
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''Odd'' (Shinee album), an album by the South Korean boy band Shinee
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Odd, West Virginia
Odd is an unincorporated rural hamlet in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along Tommy Creek. Only a post office is located there, with small residences spread along the nearby roads.
History
The community's unusual ...
, U.S., an unincorporated community
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Odd Della Robbia
''Code Lyoko'' () is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop Group (seasons 2-4) for France 3 and Canal J, with the participation of Conseil GÃ ...
, a character in the animated television series ''Code Lyoko''
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Odd Fellowship, a fraternal order
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Odd Grenland
Odd means unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric.
Odd may also refer to:
Acronym
* ODD (Text Encoding Initiative) ("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing X ...
, a Norwegian football team
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Odd Thomas (character)
Odd Thomas is a fictional character who first appeared in Dean Koontz's 2003 novel of the same name, '' Odd Thomas''. He is a twenty-year-old man who lives in the fictional desert town of Pico Mundo, California, and is able to see the spirits of th ...
, a character in a series of novels by Dean Koontz
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Odd and the Frost Giants
''Odd and the Frost Giants'' ( 2008) is a World Book Day book by Neil Gaiman. It draws on Norse mythology and also the historical Vikings.
Plot summary
Odd is a young Norseman whose father, a woodcutter, drowned during a Viking raid. Soon af ...
, a book by Neil Gaiman
* ''Odd'', a science fiction short story by John Wyndham in the collection ''
The Seeds of Time
''The Seeds of Time'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Michael Joseph. The title is presumably from '' Macbeth'', Act I Scene III.
Contents
The collection contains:
* a f ...
''
* "Odd", a song by Loona Odd Eye Circle from ''
Mix & Match''
See also
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Odds
Odds provide a measure of the likelihood of a particular outcome. They are calculated as the ratio of the number of events that produce that outcome to the number that do not. Odds are commonly used in gambling and statistics.
Odds also have ...
, from probability theory and gambling
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Oddity (disambiguation)
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