Orb or Orbs may refer to: *

Sphere A sphere () is a Geometry, geometrical object that is a solid geometry, three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle. A sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...

* Globus Cruciger Ceremonial Orb

Places and rivers

* Orb (river), in southern France * Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany *

Bad Orb Bad Orb (; "Thermae on the Orb River") is a spa town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis district of Hesse, Germany. It is situated east of Hanau between the forested hills of the Spessart. Bad Orb has a population of over 10,000. Its economy is dominate ...

, a town in Hesse, Germany

Literature, radio, film, television

* Orb Kaftan, a character from the ''

Incarnations of Immortality ''Incarnations of Immortality'' is the name of an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night) in a fictional reality and history p ...

'' novel series by Piers Anthony *

Orb (comics) The Orb is the name of two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily adversaries of Ghost Rider. Publication history The Drake Shannon version of Orb debuted in ''Marvel Team-Up'' #15 (November 1973) a ...

, a Marvel Comics villain * "Orb" (''Adventure Time''), a television episode * Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company ** ''

Orb Speculative Fiction Orb Publications is a publisher based in Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine ''Orb Speculative Fiction''. History Orb Publications began publishing the ''Orb Speculative Fiction'' maga ...

'', an Australian magazine * Orbs, sacred objects of the Bajoran species in the TV series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' *

Orbing ''Charmed'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadcast by ...

, a magical form of teleportation in the television show ''Charmed'' * ''

Ultraman Orb is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and broadcast on TV Tokyo. This series is the 28th entry to the ''Ultra Series'', released to commemorate its 50th anniversary of the Ultra Series and is the first one si ...

'', a 2016 Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series *

Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB; ''East German Broadcasting Brandenburg''), based in Potsdam, was the public broadcaster for the German federal state of Brandenburg from 12 October 1991 until 30 April 2003. It was a member organization of ...

, a former German public broadcasting organization

Music

The Orb The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Known for their psychedelic sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Their influential 19 ...

, a British electronic music group * O.R.B. (band) (formerly The Original Rude Boys), an Irish acoustic group *

Orbs (band) Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer (born July 30, 1984) is an American pianist, keyboardist and songwriter for the band Orbs and was the former pianist of symphonic black metal bands Abigail Williams and of Cradle of Filth. Biography Ashley Jurgeme ...

, a rock group featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames * ''Orb'' (Boiled in Lead album), 1990 * ''Orb'' (Alastair Galbraith album), 2007 *

The Oak Ridge Boys The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet originating in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in Southern gospel during the 1950s. Their name was change ...

, a country music group

Computing

* Object request broker, a distributed computing concept * Orb (software), a streaming media application * Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive * Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), an image processing method *

Open Relay Behavior-modification System Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), created and run by Alan Brown in New Zealand, was one of the first DNS-based Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), a means by which an internet domain may publish a list of IP addresses, in a database which can ...

(ORBS), a defunct system for blocking suspected Internet spam sites

Celestial matters

* Orb (astrology), a measurement of object interaction * Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy

Transport

* ORB, IATA code for Örebro Airport in Sweden * ORB, FAA code for Orr Regional Airport in Minnesota * ORB, Amtrak code for

Old Orchard Beach station Old Orchard Beach station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. It features a covered platform, and is served by Amtrak's '' Downeaster'' service seasonally between May and October. The station is located next to the P ...

in Maine * ORBS, former ICAO code for

Baghdad International Airport Baghdad International Airport , previously Saddam International Airport ( ar, مطار بغداد الدولي, Maṭār Baġdād ad-Dawaliyy) is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the ...

Business

* ORB International, a London-based polling agency *

Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other governmen ...

(former NYSE stock ticker: ORB)

Other

O-ring boss seal An o-ring boss seal is a technique for joining two fluid-carrying plumbing, pipes, Hose (tubing), hoses, or tubing (material), tubing. In an o-ring Boss (engineering), boss (abbreviated ORB) system, a Gender of connectors and fasteners, male-Threa ...

, a hydraulic fitting *

Organic radical battery An organic radical battery (ORB) is a type of battery first developed in 2005. As of 2011, this type of battery was generally not available for the consumer, although their development at that time was considered to be approaching practical use. ORB ...

, a type of rechargeable battery * ''

Globus cruciger The ''globus cruciger'' ( for, , Latin, cross-bearing orb), also known as "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been a Christian symbol of authority since the Middle Ages, used on coins, in iconography, and with a sceptre ...

'', an orb-and-cross symbol of Christian authority ** Sovereign's Orb, a Crown Jewel of the United Kingdom * The trademarked symbol printed on genuine

Harris Tweed Harris Tweed, (''Clò Mór'' or ''Clò Hearach'' in Gaelic) is a tweed (cloth), tweed cloth that is Weaving, handwoven by islanders at their homes in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool ...

* '' O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base'', a 2002 computer game *

Orb web A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word '' coppe'', meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey. Spid ...

, a type of spider web * Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby *

Orb (optics) In photography, backscatter (also called near-camera reflection) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to the camera's flash being reflected from unfocused motes of dust, water droplets, or other ...

, a type of photographic imperfection *

Yard globe A yard globe, also known as a garden globe, gazing ball, lawn ball, garden ball, gazing globe, mirror ball, chrome ball, or orb, is a mirrored sphere typically displayed atop a conical ceramic or wrought iron stand, and sometimes the grass, as a l ...

* "The orb", a symbolic object featured during the 2017

Arab Islamic American Summit The 2017 Riyadh summit ( ar, قمة الرياض 2017) was a series of three summits held on 20–21 May 2017 on the occasion of the visit of United States President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia, his first trip overseas. The summit included one ...