Ord or ORD may refer to:

Places

Ord of Caithness The Ord of Caithness () is a granite mass on the east coast of the Highland (council area), Highland council area of Scotland, on the boundary of the historic counties of Sutherland and Caithness. It is north-east of Helmsdale. It forms a hea ...

, landform in north-east Scotland *

Ord, Nebraska Ord is a city in Valley County, Nebraska, Valley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,112 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is the county seat of Valley County, Nebraska, Valley County. History Ord was platted in ...

, US *

Ord, Northumberland Ord is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population 1,365, increasing slightly to 1,374 at the 2011 Census. The parish is situated to the south-west of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and includes ...

, England *

Muir of Ord Muir of Ord () is a village in Easter Ross, in the Highland (council area), Highland council area of Scotland. It is situated near the western end of the Black Isle, about west of the city of Inverness and south of Dingwall. The village had a p ...

, village in Highland, Scotland * Ord, Skye, a place near Tarskavaig *

Ord River The Ord River is a river in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of Western Australia. The river's catchment covers . The lower Ord River and the confluence with Cambridge Gulf create the most northern estuarine environment in ...

, Western Australia **

Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area The Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area is an area of land used for irrigated agriculture along the Ord River in the vicinity of the town of Kununurra in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia. It has been identified by BirdLife I ...

Ord River Floodplain The Ord River floodplain is the floodplain of the lower Ord River in the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. It lies within the Victoria Bonaparte Interim Biogeo ...

, Ramsar Site **

Ord Victoria Plain The Ord Victoria Plain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, comprising .

* Ord Township, Nebraska (disambiguation), name of two townships in Nebraska, US *

East Ord East Ord is a village in Northumberland, England about south west of Berwick Upon Tweed. It lies on the south bank of the River Tweed adjacent to the A1 Road. History The village was originally called Ord, with Middle Ord and West Ord be ...

, Northumberland, UK *

Fort Ord Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) action. Most of the fort's land now makes up the Fort Ord National Monument, ...

, California, US *

O'Hare International Airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport is the primary international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Chicago Loop, Loop business district. The airport is ope ...

(IATA airport code "ORD", FAA LID "ORD", ICAO airport code "KORD"), an airport in Chicago, US

Mathematics

* Ord, the

category of preordered sets In mathematics, the category PreOrd has preordered sets as objects and order-preserving functions as morphisms. This is a category because the composition of two order-preserving functions is order preserving and the identity map is order prese ...

* Ord, the proper class of all

ordinal number In set theory, an ordinal number, or ordinal, is a generalization of ordinal numerals (first, second, th, etc.) aimed to extend enumeration to infinite sets. A finite set can be enumerated by successively labeling each element with the leas ...

s * ord(''V''), the

order type In mathematics, especially in set theory, two ordered sets and are said to have the same order type if they are order isomorphic, that is, if there exists a bijection (each element pairs with exactly one in the other set) f\colon X \to Y su ...

of a well-ordered set ''V'' * ord_''n''(''a''), the

multiplicative order In number theory, given a positive integer ''n'' and an integer ''a'' coprime to ''n'', the multiplicative order of ''a'' modulo ''n'' is the smallest positive integer ''k'' such that a^k\ \equiv\ 1 \pmod n. In other words, the multiplicative orde ...

of ''a'' modulo ''n''

Businesses

Ord Publishing Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publ ...

, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content

Fiction

* A prefix for several planets in the ''Star Wars'' universe, such as

Ord Mantell The fictional universe of the ''Star Wars'' franchise features multiple planets and moons. While only the feature films and selected other works are considered canon to the franchise since the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disne ...

Ord (comics) Ord is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character has been depicted specifically as an enemy of the X-Men. He first appeared in ''Astonishing X-Men'' #1 in May 2004. He was created by writer Joss Whe ...

, a Marvel Comics character *

Ord (Dragon Tales) ''Dragon Tales'' is an animated educational television, educational Fantasy fiction, fantasy children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker, developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser, and pr ...

, one of the characters in the children's television series ''Dragon Tales'' on PBS

Other

* "Ord", a song by Ulver from ''

Kveldssanger ''Kveldssanger'' (translated as ''"Twilight Songs"'') is the second studio album by Norwegian band Ulver, issued in March 1996 via Head Not Found. The album was recorded at Endless Lydstudio, Oslo, Norway in the summer and autumn of 1995, with Kr ...

'', 1996 *

Ord (surname) Ord is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Boris Ord (1897–1961), British composer * Edward Ord (1818–1883), Major General in the US Army * George Ord (1781–1866), American naturalist, ornithologist and writer * Harry Ord ( ...

* Object-relational database * Odinic Rite Deutschland, renamed

Verein für germanisches Heidentum The (, ), abbreviated VfGH, is a Germanic neopagan organisation in Germany. It began in 1994 as the German chapter of the British Odinic Rite and was called the Odinic Rite Deutschland. It became independent in 2004 and changed its name in 2 ...

in 2006, a neopagan organisation * Office of Rare Diseases of the United States

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in 1887 and is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Service ...

(NIH) *

Optical rotatory dispersion In optics, optical rotatory dispersion is the variation of the specific rotation of a medium with respect to the wavelength of light. Usually described by German physicist Paul Drude's empirical relation: alpha\lambda^T=\sum_^\infty\frac wh ...

, a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules {{disambiguation, geo