Orb Explained

Orb or ORB may refer to:

• Sphere
• Globus cruciger, ceremonial orb

Places

• Orb (river), in southern France
• Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany
• Bad Orb, a town in Hesse, 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 Publications, an Australian publishing company
  • Orb Speculative Fiction, an Australian magazine
• Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed
• Ultraman Orb, a 2016 Japanese tokusatsu television series
• Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization

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
• The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group

Computing

• Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
• Orb (software), a streaming media application
• Castlewood 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
• Orbital Sciences Corporation (former NYSE stock ticker: ORB)

Other

• O-ring boss seal, a hydraulic fitting
• Organic radical battery, a type of rechargeable battery
• Globus cruciger, an orb-and-cross symbol of Christian authority
  • Sovereign's Orb, a Crown Jewel of the United Kingdom
• The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
• , 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
• Yard globe
• "The orb", a symbolic object featured during the 2017 Arab Islamic American Summit

See also

• Orbe (disambiguation)
• Orbis (disambiguation)
• Ball Lightning
• Sprite (folklore)
• UFO