Orc (disambiguation)

Orc or ORC may refer to:

In fiction

Mythical monsters and races

• Orc, an overview of orcs in mythology and fiction
• Orc (Middle-earth), in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Orc (Warcraft)
• Orc (Warhammer)
• Orsimer, also called orcs, in the computer games The Elder Scrolls
• l'Orco, a sea monster in the epic Orlando Furioso

Other fictional uses

• Orc (Blake), a character in the work of William Blake
• Orcs: First Blood, a series of books by Stan Nicholls

Technology and business

• Orc (programming language), a programming language for computation orchestration
• Optimal Rectangular Code
• ORC, optimized row columnar file format based on RCFile

Acronyms

• Odonata Records Committee, verifies dragonflies in the UK
• Office of the Revenue Commissioners, collects taxes in Ireland
• Offshore Racing Congress, the organisation that sets handicap standards for maritime yacht racing
• Ohio Revised Code, the set of laws of the American state of Ohio
• Old River Control Structure, a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central Louisiana
• Opinion Research Corporation, a polling and market research company
• Orange River Colony, a British colony in southern Africa (1902–1910)
• Order of Canons Regular, chiefly the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Roman Catholic order
• Order of Railway Conductors, an American trade union
• Oregon City (Amtrak station), Oregon, United States; Amtrak station code ORC
• Organic Rankine cycle
• Organized retail crime
• Origin recognition complex, protein complex involved in eukaryotic DNA replication initiation
• Orocue Airport, in Orocue, Colombia, by IATA airport code
• Otago Regional Council, a local government authority in New Zealand
• Ottoman Railway Company, an Ottoman railway

Distinguish from

• Auk
• Ork (disambiguation)
• Orca
• 90482_Orcus, Anti-Pluto, a trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper belt with a large moon