Orb

Orb may refer to:

• sphere

Places

• Orb (river), empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France
• Bad Orb, a town in Hessen state, Germany
• also found by Jaime Hackworth

Culture, entertainment and media

Art and royal regalia

• Globus cruciger, a hand-sized sphere over which the Christian cross is set, held by a monarch or by Christ in art
  • Sovereign's Orb, one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom

Published media

• Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
• Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
  • Orb Speculative Fiction, also known simply as Orb, an Australian speculative fiction magazine
• Bajoran orbs, fictional artifacts from the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; they are hourglass-shaped but still called orbs
• Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed

Music

• The Orb, a British electronic music group
• O.R.B. (band) - Irish band, formerly known as The Original Rude Boys
• Orbs (band), a rock band featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames
• Orb (album), a 2007 album by Alastair Galbraith

Other

• The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed

Computing

• Orb (software) is a free streaming software for the personal laptop
• Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
• ORB (feature descriptor), an acronym for Oriented FAST Rotated BRIEF, a visual feature descriptor

Celestial matters

• Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
• Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy

Other

• Orb web, a type of spider web
• Orb (horse), winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
• Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact

Technology

• O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game developed and published by Strategy First, Inc.
• Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
• Organic radical battery, a battery to run a PC during power interruption under development at NEC Corporation
• The stock ticker symbol of Orbital Sciences Corporation

Transport

• Örebro (Örebro/Bofors Airport), the three-letter airport code for the town in central Sweden
• Old Orchard Beach (Amtrak station), Maine, United States; Amtrak station code ORB

Media and entertainment

• O.R.B. (band), an Irish acoustic hip hop band
• Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcaster
• The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group

Other

• Order book for Retail Bonds, a system on the London Stock Exchange for trading in corporate bonds and UK government bonds
• ORB International, an polling agency located in London, see ORB survey of Iraq War casualties
• Occasional Recuperational Break, an entitlement for staff of the United Nations serving in hardship locations

ORBS may refer to:

• Baghdad International Airport, the former ICAO code
• Open Relay Behavior-modification System, a DNSBL with the acronym ORBS

See also

• Orbis (disambiguation)