Or or OR may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
* "O.R.", a 1974 episode of
M*A*S*H
''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
The ...
*
Or (My Treasure)
''Or (My Treasure)'' is a 2004 drama film starring Dana Ivgy in the title role of Or, a teenager who struggles to be responsible for her prostitute mother Ruthie, played by Ronit Elkabetz. The French-Israeli production premiered on 14 May 2004 at ...
, a 2004 movie from Israel (''Or'' means "light" in Hebrew)
Music
*
''Or'' (album), a 2002 album by Golden Boy with Miss Kittin
* ''O*R'', the original title of Olivia Rodrigo's album ''
Sour
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor). Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor ...
'', 2021
* "Or", a song by Israeli singer
Chen Aharoni
Chen Aharoni ( he, חן אהרוני; also known as Chen and also transliterated as Hen Aharoni; born in Holon, Israel on 12 April 1990) is an Israeli singer-songwriter, musician and television presenter
Career
''Kokhav Nolad'' (2007)
He came i ...
in Kdam Eurovision 2011
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Or Records
Or Records (sometimes capitalized OR Records after their logo) is a small British independent record label, which was established in 1998 and based in London. The label specializes in experimental music and is distributed by Touch Music. They ...
, a record label
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Organized Rhyme
Organized Rhyme was a Canadian hip hop group based in Ottawa, Ontario.
The group became one of the first Canadian rap acts to sign a record deal with a major label (A&M Records) and the video for their debut single "Check the O.R." won the MuchMu ...
, a Canadian hip-hop group featuring Tom Green
Businesses and organizations
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Or (political party)
Israel has numerous minor political parties. Under the proportional representation electoral system used to elect members of the Knesset, parties required only 1% of the vote to win a seat in the legislature until the 1992 elections, when the elec ...
(), Israel
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OR Books
OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009. The company sells digital and print-on-demand books directly to the customer and focuses on creative promotion through traditional med ...
, an American publisher
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Owasco River Railway
The Owasco River Railway was a switching railroad that provided rail service to several industries on the Owasco River in Auburn, New York, interchanging with the New York Central Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad via trackage rights on the ...
, Auburn, New York, U.S. (by reporting mark)
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TUI fly Netherlands
TUI fly Netherlands, legally incorporated as ''TUI Airlines Netherlands'' (formerly branded as ''Arkefly'' and ''Arke''), is a Dutch charter airline headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Haarlemmermeer, ...
, formerly ''Arke'', a Dutch charter airline (by IATA designator)
Language and linguistics
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Or (digraph)
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ'').
Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...
, in the Uzbek alphabet
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Or (letter)
The ''forfeda'' (sing. ''forfid'') are the "additional" letters of the Ogham alphabet, beyond the basic inventory of twenty signs. Their name derives from ''fid'' ("wood", a term also used for Ogham letters) and the prefix ''for-'' ("additional"). ...
(or ''forfeda''), in Ogham, the Celtic tree alphabet
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Odia language
Odia (, ISO: , ; formerly rendered Oriya ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the official language in Odisha (formerly rendered Orissa), where native speakers make up 82% of the population, and it is also ...
, an ancient Indo-Aryan tongue spoken in East India (ISO 639)
* Or, an English
grammatical conjunction
In grammar, a conjunction (list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated or ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions. That definition may overlap with that of other parts of s ...
* -or, an English
agent noun
In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, ) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, "driver" is an agent noun formed from the verb "drive".
Usually, ''derive ...
suffix
* Or, a digraph in Taiwanese's
Daī-ghî tōng-iōng pīng-im phonetic transcription
Places
Europe
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Or (Crimea)
The Isthmus of Perekop, literally Isthmus of the Trench ( uk, Перекопський перешийок; Romanization of Ukrainian, transliteration: ''Perekops'kyy pereshyyok''; russian: Перекопский перешеек; Romanization of ...
, an isthmus of the Black Sea
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Or (river)
The Or (russian: Орь, kk, Ор) is a river in Orenburg Oblast of Russia and Aktobe Province of Kazakhstan. It is a left tributary of the Ural, and is 332 km long, with a drainage basin of 18 600 km2. The river is formed by the co ...
, a tributary of the Ural
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Province of Oristano
The province of Oristano ( it, provincia di Oristano, sc, provìntzia de Aristanis) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Oristano. It has an area of , a total population of 160,746 (2016), ...
, Italy (by vehicle code)
United States
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Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
, a U.S. state (by postal abbreviation)
Science, technology, and mathematics
Computing and mathematics
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Or (logic)
In logic, disjunction is a logical connective typically notated as \lor and read aloud as "or". For instance, the English language sentence "it is raining or it is snowing" can be represented in logic using the disjunctive formula R \lor S ...
, logical disjunction
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Exclusive or (XOR), a logical operation
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Bitwise OR, an operator in computer programming, typically notated as or or ,
* The
short-circuit operator
A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit ...
''or'', notated or, , , , or or else
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Elvis operator, an operator in computer programming that returns its first operand if its value is considered true, and its right operand if not
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Null coalescing operator
The null coalescing operator (called the Logical Defined-Or operator in Perl) is a binary operator that is part of the syntax for a basic conditional expression in several programming languages, including C#, PowerShell as of version 7.0.0, Perl a ...
, an operator in computer programming
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Onion routing
Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network. In an onion network, messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to layers of an onion. The encrypted data is transmitted through a series of net ...
, anonymous networking technique (also Onion Router)
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OR gate
The OR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical disjunction. The OR gate returns true if either or both of its inputs are true; otherwise it returns false. The input and output states are normally represented by different voltage le ...
, an integrated circuit in electronics
*
Object-relational mapping
Other uses in science and technology
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Odds ratio
An odds ratio (OR) is a statistic that quantifies the strength of the association between two events, A and B. The odds ratio is defined as the ratio of the odds of A in the presence of B and the odds of A in the absence of B, or equivalently (due ...
, a measure of effect size in statistics
* ''OR'', a previous title of the ''
Journal of the Operational Research Society
The ''Journal of the Operational Research Society'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It is an official journal of The Operational Research Society and has been in existence since 1950. It publishes full length case- ...
''
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Operating room
Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
* Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
* ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man ...
, in medicine
*
Operations research
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...
, or operational research, in British English
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Operations readiness
Titles and ranks
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Official receiver
An officer of the Insolvency Service of the United Kingdom, an official receiver (OR) is an officer of the court to which they are attached. The OR is answerable to the courts for carrying out the courts' orders and for fulfilling their duties ...
, a statutory office holder in England and Wales
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Order of Roraima of Guyana
The Order of Roraima of Guyana is the second highest National Award of Guyana, and is limited to only thirty five living Guyanese recipients. Established in 1976, it is awarded to any citizen of Guyana who has given outstanding service to the nat ...
, an award of the Republic of Guyana
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Other ranks, Denmark (disambiguation)
For non-officer ranks in Denmark, see:
*Ranks and insignia of Royal Danish Army
*Ranks and insignia of Royal Danish Navy
*Ranks and insignia of Royal Danish Air Force The Royal Danish Air Force ranks follow the NATO system of ranks and insignia, a ...
, military personnel in all branches of the Danish military that are not officers by the NATO system of ranks and insignia
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Other ranks (UK)
Other ranks (ORs) in the Royal Marines, British Army, Royal Air Force, and in the armies and air forces of many other Commonwealth countries and the Republic of Ireland, are those personnel who are not commissioned officers, usually including no ...
, personnel who are not commissioned officers, usually including non-commissioned officers (NCOs), in militaries of many Commonwealth countries
Other uses
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Or (name)
Or is a Hebrew-language name ( he, אור), meaning "light, brilliance". It may be both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Or Eitan (born 1981), Israeli basketball player
* Or Goren (born 1956), Israeli ...
, Hebrew given name and surname
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Official Records of the American Civil War
The ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion'', commonly known as the ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies'' or Official Records (OR or ORs), is the most extensive collection of Americ ...
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Olympic record
Olympic records are the best performances in a specific event in that event's history in either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games, including:
* Archery (list)
* Alpine skiing (records recognized only by FIS)
* Athletics (list)
...
, a term for the best performances in Olympic Games
*
''Or'' (heraldry), a gold or yellow tincture (from the French word for "gold")
* Own
Recognizance
In some common law nations, a recognizance is a conditional pledge of money undertaken by a person before a court which, if the person defaults, the person or their sureties will forfeit that sum. It is an obligation of record, entered into before ...
, the basis for releasing someone awaiting trial without bail
See also
* '0r' (zero r), meaning "no
rood
A rood or rood cross, sometimes known as a triumphal cross, is a cross or crucifix, especially the large crucifix set above the entrance to the chancel of a medieval church.
Alternatively, it is a large sculpture or painting of the crucifixion ...
s", in old measurements of land area
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And (disambiguation)
or AND may refer to:
Logic, grammar, and computing
* Conjunction (grammar), connecting two words, phrases, or clauses
* Logical conjunction in mathematical logic, notated as "∧", "⋅", "&", or simple juxtaposition
* Bitwise AND, a boolea ...
*
OAR (disambiguation)
An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end. Rowers grasp the oar at the other end.
The difference between oars and paddles is that oars are used exclusively for rowing. In rowing the oar is connecte ...
*
Ore (disambiguation)
Ore is a term for mineral deposits.
Ore may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Le Ore, an Italian magazine
* One-Roll Engine, a role-playing game system
* Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, a Swedish music group
Places Norway
* Ore, Farsund, a vi ...
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Either/Or (disambiguation) ''Either/Or'' is an influential book by philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
Either/Or and related terms may also refer to:
* ''Either/Or'' (book), a novel by Elif Batuman
* ''Either/Or'' (album), music by Elliott Smith
* ''Either/Or'' (TV series), a ...
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