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Om is a sacred syllable in Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. OM, om, and variations, may also refer to:


Arts and entertainment


Fiction

* ''Om'' (1995 film), an Indian Kannada film * ''Om'' (2003 film), a Bollywood film * ''Om'' (2018 film), a Kollywood film * ''Omkara'' (2004 film), a 2004 Indian Kannada film * ''Omkara'' (2006 film), a 2006 Indian Bollywood film * Om, the lead character in the 2007 Bollywood film '' Om Shanti Om'' * Om, any one of the humans in the 1973 animated film '' Fantastic Planet''


Music

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Om (band) Om (sometimes stylized as OM) is an American doom metal band from San Francisco, California. Formed as a duo in 2003 by the rhythm section of the band Sleep (bassist Al Cisneros and drummer Chris Hakius), Om is currently a trio consisting of Cis ...
, a doom metal band * ''Om'' (Ibarra album), a 1996 album * ''Om'' (John Coltrane album), a 1965 album * ''OM'' (Negură Bunget album), a 2006 album * ''Om'' (Soulfly album), a 2002 album also known as ''3'' * "Om" (The Moody Blues song), a 1968 song *
OM Festival The OM Festival was a community-based summer solstice festival that ran annually in southern Ontario from 1998 to 2004. The festival, organized by Sumkidz (now Suma), primarily featured electronic music as well as dance, workshops, art, and other ...
, a Canadian electronic music festival * Om Records, a San Francisco-based dance music record label, home to artist like J Boogie, Kaskade, and King Kooba * Of Machines, a post-hardcore band * ''Orchestra Model'', an acoustic guitar by Martin Guitars


People

* Om Bhatia, Indo-Canadian actor better known as Akshay Kumar *
Om Puri Om Prakash Puri (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Bengali, Kannada,English, Punjabi and one Telugu film, as well as independent and art films and also starred ...
, Indian actor *
Om family The Om family ( bn, ওম বংশ) was a Bengali family of landowners which served some notable roles throughout history, in the Sylhet region of present-day Bangladesh. History The Oms trace their descent from Shitanath Om, a Bengali Hindu ...
, eastern Bengali family


Businesses and organizations

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MIAT-Mongolian Airlines MIAT (Mongolyn Irgenii Agaaryn Teever (Монголын Иргэний Агаарын Тээвэр , Mongolian Civil Air Transport)) Mongolian Airlines, ; "Mongolian Civil Air Transport" is the national airline of Mongolia, headquartered in th ...
(IATA code OM) * Odyssey of the Mind, an international problem-solving competition for students * Officine Meccaniche, a former Italian motor vehicle manufacturer *
Olympique de Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club pl ...
, a French football club * Operation Mobilisation, a Christian non-profit missions organization *
Orlando Magic The Orlando Magic are an American professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. The Magic compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The franchise was establ ...
, a basketball team in the NBA * OM AB, a Swedish exchange which merged with Finnish HEX plc to become OMX


Honors and orders

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Order of Manitoba The Order of Manitoba (french: Ordre du Manitoba) is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Instituted in 1999 when Lieutenant Governor Peter Liba granted Royal Assent to The Order of Manitoba Act, the order is administe ...
, the post-nominal letters indicating membership in an honour of the Crown in Right of Manitoba *
Order of Merit The Order of Merit (french: link=no, Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by K ...
, post-nominal letters indicating membership in a high honour from the monarch of the Commonwealth realms *
Order of Merit (Jamaica) The Order of Merit is part of the Jamaican honours system, and it is the fourth-highest honour awarded by the nation of Jamaica. The Order of Merit is conferred upon Jamaicans or distinguished citizens of other countries who have achieved interna ...
, post-nominal letters indicating membership of the Order of Merit in the Jamaican honours system *
Order of the Minims The Minims, officially known as the Order of Minims (; abbreviated OM), and known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order, are a Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-c ...
, the post-nominal letters indicating membership in a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Francis of Paola in the fifteenth century in Italy


Language

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Oromo language Oromo ( or ; Oromo: ''Afaan Oromoo''), in the linguistic literature of the early 20th century also called Galla (a name with a pejorative meaning and therefore rejected by the Oromo people), is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushiti ...
(ISO 639-1: "om") * Oto-Manguean languages (abbreviated as "OM")


Places

* Øm Abbey, a Cistercian abbey which was in Søhøjlandet, in Denmark * Om (river), a tributary of the Irtysh in Siberia, Russia * Oman (ISO 3166 country code OM) **
.om .om is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the ...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Oman * Omu Peak, in the
Bucegi Mountains The Bucegi Mountains (Romanian: ''Munții Bucegi'' ) are located in central Romania, south of the city of Brașov. They are part of the Southern Carpathians group of the Carpathian Mountains. At , '' Omu'' is its highest point. To the east, the ...
of Romania


Science and technology


Biology and medicine

* Occupational medicine, a medical specialty * Osteomyelitis, a bone marrow infection * Otitis media, an infection of the middle ear * Bacterial outer membrane, a layer found in gram-negative bacteria


Computing and telecommunications

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.om .om is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the ...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Oman * Openmoko Linux, a mobile operating system developed by the Openmoko project


Other uses in science and technology

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Builder's Old Measurement Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship. It is a volumetric measurement of cubic capacity. It estimated the tonnage of a ship bas ...
(abbr. OM or om) - a method of calculating tonnage (i.e. cargo capacity) for merchant ships in the age of sail * Olympus OM system, a family of Olympus SLR cameras made between 1972 and 2002 *
Organic matter Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments. It is matter composed of organic compounds that have c ...
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Osipkov–Merritt model Osipkov–Merritt models (named for Leonid Osipkov and David Merritt) are mathematical representations of spherical stellar systems (galaxies, star clusters, globular clusters etc.). The Osipkov–Merritt formula generates a one-parameter family ...
s, mathematical representations of spherical stellar systems


Other uses

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Minim (religious order) The Minims, officially known as the Order of Minims (; abbreviated OM), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continue ...
(O.M.), is a member of the Roman Catholic religious order of friars * Offering memorandum, in finance, "the OM", prospectus for a bond offering * Old Man, meaning a male amateur radio operator *
List of Old Marlburians The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England. Academia and education *Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton College, Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' ...
, alumni of Marlborough College *
Old Millfieldians Founded in 1935, Millfield is a co-educational Independent school for pupils aged 13–18 years based in Street, Somerset, England. Millfield is a registered charity and is the largest co-educational boarding school in the UK with approximat ...
, alumni of Millfield School *
Olympique de Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club pl ...
, a French football club in Marseille * Om (actor), Bengali actor * Operating margin, in business *
Operation Mindfuck ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'' is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.''Illuminatus!'' was written between 1969 and 1971, but not published until 1975 according to Robert Anto ...
, a practice within Discordianism *
Orgasmic meditation OneTaste is a business which was primarily dedicated to teaching the practices of ''orgasmic meditation'' (OM) and ''slow sex''. Though it embraced ideas based in Eastern philosophy, the central focus was a meditation practice around the sensa ...
, a meditational practice in which the object of meditation is finger to genital (usually
clitoris The clitoris ( or ) is a female sex organ present in mammals, ostriches and a limited number of other animals. In humans, the visible portion – the glans – is at the front junction of the labia minora (inner lips), above the ope ...
) contact * Could be used as a short name for
Om Nom ''Om'' (or ''Aum'') (; sa, ॐ, ओम्, Ōṃ, translit-std=IAST) is a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, or an invocation in Hinduism. ''Om'' is the prime symbol of Hinduism.Krishna Sivaraman (2008), ''Hindu Spirituality Vedas Through Ved ...
from the "Cut the Rope" games.


See also

* Aum (disambiguation) * O&M (disambiguation) * OAM (disambiguation) *
Ohm (disambiguation) Ohm (symbol Ω) is a unit of electrical resistance named after Georg Ohm. Ohm or OHM may also refer to: People * Georg Ohm (1789–1854), German physicist and namesake of the term ''ohm'' * Germán Ohm (born 1936), Mexican boxer * Jörg Ohm (bor ...
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OMS (disambiguation) OMS or Oms may refer to: Education * Oakland Middle School, Murfreesboro, Tennessee * O'Banion Middle School, Garland, Texas * Odle Middle School, Bellevue, Washington * Orefield Middle School, Orefield, Pennsylvania * Open Mind School, Redwood ...
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Omu (disambiguation) Omu may refer to: * Ōmu, Hokkaido, a town in Hokkaido * Omu Okwei (1872–1943), Nigerian queen merchant * Paul Omu (born 1940), military governor of South-Eastern State, Nigeria * Stella Omu (born 1946), Nigerian politician who was elected as na ...
* Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese new religious movement, known for carrying out the Sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subways {{disambiguation