Orb or ORB may refer to:

  • Sphere
  • Globus cruciger, ceremonial orb
  • Sovereign's Orb, a crown jewel of the United Kingdom
  • Crystal ball

Places

  • Orb (river), in southern France
  • Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany

Literature, radio, film, television

  • Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
  • Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
  • "Orb" (Adventure Time), a television episode
  • Orb Speculative Fiction, an Australian magazine by Orb Publications
  • Ultraman Orb, a 2016 Japanese tokusatsu television series
  • Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, a Japanese manga and anime series about the rise of heliocentrism

Music

  • The Orb, 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

Computing

  • Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
  • Orb (software), a streaming media application
  • Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
  • Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), an image processing method
  • Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), a defunct system for blocking suspected Internet spam sites

Celestial matters

  • Orb (astrology), a measurement of object interaction
  • Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy

Transport

  • ORB, IATA code for Örebro Airport in Sweden
  • ORB, FAA code for Orr Regional Airport in Minnesota
  • ORB, Amtrak code for Old Orchard Beach station in Maine
  • ORBS, former ICAO code for Baghdad International Airport

Business

  • ORB International, a London-based polling agency
  • Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
  • Orbital Sciences Corporation (former NYSE stock ticker: ORB)
  • Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization

Other

  • O-ring boss seal, a hydraulic fitting
  • Organic radical battery, a type of rechargeable battery
  • The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
  • O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game
  • Orb web, a type of spider web
  • Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
  • Orb (optics), an optical artifact

See also

  • Orbe (disambiguation)
  • Orbis (disambiguation)
  • Ball lightning
  • Sprite (folklore)