Orb or ORB 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 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 ...

'', ceremonial orb

Places

Orb (river) The Orb (; oc, Òrb) is a long river in the department of Hérault in the south of France. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Valras-Plage. The river flows through the towns of Bédarieux and Béziers, where it is crossed by the canal du Mi ...

, in southern France *

Orb (Kinzig) The Kinzig is a river, 87 kilometres long, in southern Hesse, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Main. Its source is in the Spessart hills at Sterbfritz, near Schlüchtern. The Kinzig flows into the Main in Hanau. The Main-Kinzig-Kreis (dist ...

, 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 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 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 *

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), 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 In distributed computing, an object request broker (ORB) is a middleware which allows program calls to be made from one computer to another via a computer network, providing location transparency through remote procedure calls. ORBs promote interop ...

, a distributed computing concept *

Orb (software) Orb was a freeware streaming software that enabled users to remotely access all their personal digital media files including pictures, music, videos and television. It could be used from any Internet-enabled device, including laptops, pocket PC, ...

, a streaming media application *

Castlewood Orb Drive The Orb Drive is a 3.5-inch removable hard-disk drive introduced by Castlewood Systems in 1999. Its original capacity was 2.2 GB. A later version of the drive was introduced in 2001 with a capacity of 5.7 GB. Manufacturing of this pro ...

, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive *

Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB) is a fast robust local feature detector, first presented by Ethan Rublee et al. in 2011, that can be used in computer vision tasks like object recognition or 3D reconstruction. It is based on the FAST keypo ...

(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) Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Dif ...

, a measurement of object interaction *

Celestial orb The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars a ...

, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy

Transport

* ORB, IATA code for

Örebro Airport Örebro Airport is located 10 kilometers southwest of Örebro and is Sweden's 23rd-largest passenger airport and the fourth-largest cargo airport. It was opened in 1979. The airport handled 101,669 passengers in 2013. Airlines and destinations ...

in Sweden * ORB, FAA code for

Orr Regional Airport Orr Regional Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Orr, a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the sam ...

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 On Friday, 14 September 2007, ORB International, an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualties in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.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 * ''

'', an orb-and-cross symbol of Christian authority **

Sovereign's Orb The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, originally the Crown Jewels of England, are a collection of royal ceremonial objects kept in the Tower of London which include the coronation regalia and vestments worn by British monarchs. Symbols of ov ...

, 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 type of spider web *

Orb (horse) Orb (foaled February 24, 2010 in Kentucky) is a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2013 Kentucky Derby. Background Orb is a bay colt with a small white star bred and owned by Stuart S. Janney III and Phipps Stable. He was sir ...

, 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 ...

, an optical artifact *

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