Origin(s) or The Origin may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics and manga

* ''Origin'' (comics), a Wolverine comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics in 2002 * ''The Origin'' (Buffy comic), a 1999 ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' comic book series * Origins (''Judge Dredd'' story), a major ''Judge Dredd'' storyline running from 2006 through 2007 * ''Origin'' (manga), a 2016 manga by Boichi * '' Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin'', a 2002 manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko * '' Wolverine: Origins'', a Marvel Comics series

Films and television

* ''Origin'' (TV series), 2018 science-fiction TV series * "Origin" (''Angel''), a fifth-season episode of ''Angel'' * '' Origin: Spirits of the Past'', a 2006 anime movie also known as ''Gin-iro no Kami no Agito'' * Origin (''Stargate''), the religion of the Ori * "Origin" (''Stargate SG-1''), a ninth-season episode of ''Stargate SG-1'' * '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', a 2009 superhero film, prequel to the ''X-Men'' film trilogy * '' Origins: The Journey of Humankind'', a National Geographic TV series * "The Origin" (''Dark''), episode 4 of season 3 of the ''Dark'' TV series

Gaming

* Origin (service), a video game digital distribution service and platform from Electronic Arts * Origin Systems, a former video game developer * Origin, King of the Summon Spirits in ''

Tales of Phantasia is an action role-playing game originally developed by Wolf Team. It is the first title in Namco's ''Tales (video game series), Tales'' series. Initially released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom in December 1995, it was ...

'' and its prequel, ''Tales of Symphonia'' * Origins, spirits that are attached to The Mystics in '' Legaia 2: Duel Saga'' * Origins Award, presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair * Origins Game Fair, an annual board game event in Columbus, Ohio * '' Assassin's Creed Origins'', part of the ''Assassin's Creed'' franchise * '' Batman: Arkham Origins'', part of the Batman game franchise * '' Dragon Age: Origins'', a 2009 role-playing video game and first installment of the ''Dragon Age'' series * '' F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'', the sequel to ''F.E.A.R.'' by Monolith * ''

Rayman Origins ''Rayman Origins'' is a 2011 platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the fourth main installment in the ''Rayman'' series and the first main installment since '' Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc'' (2003). The game was released for ...

'', a 2011 installment in the ''Rayman'' series * '' Silent Hill: Origins'', the fifth installment of the ''Silent Hill'' survival horror series and prequel to the original 1999 game * Origins, the final zombies map released for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 * Origin, the final dungeon of ''

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3'' is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. Released on July 29, it is the fourth installment of the open-world ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' franchise, an ...

Literature

Fiction

* ''Origin'' (Baxter novel), a 2001 science fiction book by Stephen Baxter * ''Origin'' (Brown novel), a 2017 novel by Dan Brown, the fifth installment in the ''Robert Langdon'' series * ''Origin'', a 2007 novel by Diana Abu-Jaber * ''Origins'', a fantasy novel in the Fourth World series by Kate Thompson * ''The Origin'' (novel), a biographical novel of Charles Darwin by Irving Stone

Nonfiction

* ''Origins'' (Cato), Cato the Elder's lost work on Roman and Italian history * ''Origins'', a book on evolution by Richard Leakey and

Roger Lewin Roger Lewin (born 1944) is a British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books. Career Lewin was a staff member of ''New Scientist'' in London for nine years. He went to Washington, D.C. to write for ''Science (journal), Science'' fo ...

Music

* ''The Origin'' (Einhorn), a 2009 opera/oratorio by Richard Einhorn

Groups

Origin (band) Origin is an American technical death metal band from Topeka, Kansas, founded in 1990 under the monikers Necrotomy and Thee Abomination. They have been recognized by music critics and metal fans alike for combining a harsh sound with a high le ...

, an American metal band formed in 1997 *

The Origin (band) The Origin was an American alternative/indie rock/power pop band formed in San Diego, California in 1985. The classic line-up of the band consisted of Michael Andrews, Topper Rimel, Rony Abada, and Daniel Silverman. During the band's active year ...

, an American rock and power pop band 1985–1992 * Origin, a jazz group led by

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

Albums

* ''Origin'' (Borknagar album), 2006 * ''Origin'' (Dayseeker album), 2015 * ''Origin'' (Evanescence album), 2000 * ''Origin'' (Origin album), 2000 * ''Origin'', by Omnium Gatherum, 2021 * ''Origin'', an EP by Kelly Moran, 2019 * ''The Origin'' (album), by The Origin, 1990 * ''Origins'' (Bridge to Grace album), 2015 * ''Origins'' (Eluveitie album), 2014 * ''Origins'' (God Is an Astronaut album), 2013 * ''Origins'' (Imagine Dragons album), 2018 * , by Dan Reed Network, 2018 * ''Origins'', by Steve Roach, 1993

Songs

* "Origin", by Neurosis from their 2007 album '' Given to the Rising''

Periodicals

* ''Origin'' (magazine), an American poetry magazine * ''Origins'', a theological journal published by

Catholic News Service Catholic News Service (CNS) is an American news agency owned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that reports on the Catholic Church. The agency's domestic service is set to shut down at the end of 2022, but its Rome bur ...

(CNS) * ''Origins'', a peer-reviewed creation science journal of the

Geoscience Research Institute Loma Linda University (LLU) is a private Seventh-day Adventist health sciences university in Loma Linda, California. , the university comprises eight schools and a Faculty of Graduate Studies. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist educat ...

(GRI)

Brands and enterprises

* Atos Origin, a company formed by the merger of BSO and Philips C&P (Communications & Processing) division *

Origin Energy Origin Energy an ASX listed public company with headquarters in Sydney. It is a major integrated electricity generator, and electricity and natural gas retailer. It operates Australia’s largest coal-fired power station at Lake Macquarie, New ...

, an Australian gas and electricity company *

Origin Enterprises Origin Enterprises plc is a focused agri-services group providing specialist on-farm agronomy services and the supply of crop technologies and inputs. The group has leading market positions in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Poland, Romania and Ukrain ...

, Irish agribusiness multinational *

Origin PC Origin PC Corp. is a custom personal computer manufacturing company located in Miami, Florida. Founded by former Alienware employees in 2009, Origin PC assembles high-performance gaming and professional-use desktop and laptop computers from thir ...

, a personal computer manufacturer *

Origins (cosmetics) Origins Natural Resources, Inc., trading as Origins, is an American cosmetics brand founded in 1990 by Leonard Lauder, son of Estée Lauder. It is one of the original brands of The Estée Lauder Companies. History The company is known for thei ...

, a plant-based skin care and fragrance company of Estée Lauder *

Toyota Origin The is a limited edition mid-size car made by Toyota and released in Japan between 2000 and 2001. It was made available for sale in November 2000. It was planned that only 1,000 units of the car would be available, but in fact, 1,073 units ...

, a limited edition Toyota automobile released in Japan * Origin (3D printing), a San Francisco-based 3D printing company acquired by Stratasys

Philosophy and religion

* '' Creatio ex nihilo'', Latin for "creation out of nothing", a phrase used in philosophical and theological contexts *

Creation myth A creation myth (or cosmogonic myth) is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it., "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the universe and its inhabitants came to be. Creation myths develop ...

, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it *

Origin myth An origin myth is a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. One type of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, a story that describes the creation of the world. However, many cultures have stor ...

, a story or explanation that describes the beginning of some feature of the natural or social world * Origin story, or

pourquoi story A pourquoi story ("wikt:pourquoi, pourquoi" means "why" in French language, French), also known as an origin story, pourquoi tale or an etiological tale, is a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is, for example why a snake ...

, a fictional narrative that explains why something is the way it is * ''Origins'', a theological journal published by

(CNS)

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology and medicine

Origin (anatomy) Anatomical terminology is used to uniquely describe aspects of skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle such as their actions, structure, size, and location. Types There are three types of muscle tissue in the body: skeletal, smooth, ...

, the place or point at which a part or structure arises * Abiogenesis, the study of how life on Earth arose from inanimate matter * Noogenesis, the study of origin and evolution of mind *

Origin of humanity Anthropogeny is the study of human origins. It is not simply a synonym for human evolution by natural selection, which is only a part of the processes involved in human origins. Many other factors besides natural selection were involved, ranging o ...

, the study of human evolution * Origin of replication, the location at which DNA replication is initiated *

Paleoanthropology Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship ...

, the study of human origin * Pedigree (dog), registered ancestry

Computing and technology

Dalsa Origin The Dalsa Origin is the first camera designed and built by Dalsa Corporation to be used specifically for digital cinematography. Overview The Dalsa Origin is the first commercially available digital cinema camera to capture at 4K resolution, ...

, a digital movie camera * Origin of a URI, as used in the

Same-origin policy In computing, the same-origin policy (SOP) is an important concept in the web application security model. Under the policy, a web browser permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages ...

Origin (data analysis software) Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones and alterna ...

, scientific graphing and data analysis software developed by OriginLab Corp *

Original equipment manufacturer An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...

(OEM), any company which manufactures products for another company's brand name *

SGI Origin 200 The SGI Origin 200, code named ''Speedo'', was an entry-level server computer developed and manufactured by SGI, introduced in October 1996 to accompany their mid-range and high-end Origin 2000. It is based on the same architecture as the Origin ...

, a series of entry-level MIPS-based server computers made by Silicon Graphics *

SGI Origin 2000 The SGI Origin 2000 is a family of mid-range and high-end server computers developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics (SGI). They were introduced in 1996 to succeed the SGI Challenge and POWER Challenge. At the time of introduction, these r ...

, a series of mid-range to high-end MIPS-based server computers made by Silicon Graphics *

SGI Origin 3000 The Origin 3000 and the Onyx 3000 is a family of mid-range and high-end computers developed and manufactured by SGI. The Origin 3000 is a server, and the Onyx 3000 is a visualization system. Both systems were introduced in July 2000 to succeed th ...

, a series of mid-range to high-end MIPS-based server computers made by Silicon Graphics that succeeded the Origin 2000

Mathematics

* Origin (mathematics), a fixed point of reference for the geometry of the surrounding space ** Most commonly, the point of intersection of the axes in the

Cartesian coordinate system A Cartesian coordinate system (, ) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in t ...

* Origin, the pole in the

polar coordinate system In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction. The reference point (analogous to the or ...

Time

* Origin, a general point in

time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

* Origin, an epochal date or event, see

epoch In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by ...

* Origin, in astronomy, an

epochal moment In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity. It is useful for the celestial coordinates or orbital elements of a celestial body, as they are subject to pertu ...

, i.e., a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body

Other

* Origin, in

cosmogony Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe. Overview Scientific theories In astronomy, cosmogony refers to the study of the origin of particular astrophysical objects or systems, and is most commonly used i ...

, any theory concerning the origin of the universe * Origin, in

cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount (lexicographer), Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in ...

, the study of the universe and humanity's place in it

Sports

* City vs Country Origin, an annual Australian rugby league football match *

International Origin Match International Origin was an annual series of rugby league football matches between England RL and the Exiles. The International Origin was created by the Rugby Football League (RFL) to ensure that the English national side had a good strong mid ...

, England vs Exiles * State of Origin series, annual best-of-three rugby league football match

Other uses

* Origin, or

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kins ...

, the origin of families * Origin, or

etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

, the origin of words * Origin, or

toponymy Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

, the origin of place names