Orb or ORB may refer to: *

Sphere A sphere (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ) is a surface (mathematics), surface analogous to the circle, a curve. In solid geometry, a sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...

* ''

Globus cruciger The for, la, globus cruciger, cross-bearing orb, also known as ''stavroforos sphaira'' () or "the orb and cross", is an Sphere, orb surmounted by a Christian cross, cross. It has been a Christian Church, Christian symbol of authority since the M ...

'', ceremonial orb **

Sovereign's Orb The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, originally the Crown Jewels of England, are a collection of royal ceremonial objects kept in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, which include the Coronation of the British monarch, coronation regalia ...

, a crown jewel of the United Kingdom

Places

Orb (river) The Orb (; ) is a long river in the department of Hérault in the south of France. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Valras-Plage. The river flows through the towns of Bédarieux and Béziers, where it is crossed by the canal du Midi on th ...

, in southern France *

Orb (Kinzig) The Kinzig () is a river, 87 kilometres long, in southern Hesse, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Main. Its source is in the Spessart hills at Sterbfritz, near Schlüchtern. The Kinzig flows into the Main in Hanau. The Main-Kinzig-Kreis (d ...

, a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany

Literature, radio, film, television

* Orb Kaftan, a character from the ''

Incarnations of Immortality ''Incarnations of Immortality'' is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. The books each focus on one of eight supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good, and Night) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ...

'' novel series by Piers Anthony *

Orb (comics) The Orb is the name of two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, primarily adversaries of Ghost Rider. Publication history The Drake Shannon version of Orb debuted in ''Marvel Team-Up'' #15 (November 1973) and ...

, a Marvel Comics villain * "Orb" (''Adventure Time''), a television episode * '' Orb Speculative Fiction'', an Australian magazine by Orb Publications * ''

Ultraman Orb is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and broadcast on TV Tokyo. It is the 20th entry (29th overall) in the ''Ultra Series'' and released to commemorate its 50th anniversary of the Ultra Series and is the fi ...

'', a 2016 Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series * Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, a Japanese manga and anime series about the rise of

heliocentrism Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets orbit around the Sun at the center of the universe. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed t ...

Music

The Orb The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Known for their psychedelic sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Their influential ...

, 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) Orb was a freeware streaming software that enabled users to remotely access all their personal digital media files including pictures, music, podcasts, videos and television. It could be used from any Internet-enabled device, including laptops, po ...

, 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 Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), created and run by Alan Brown in New Zealand, was one of the first DNS-based Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), a means by which an internet domain may publish a list of IP addresses, in a database which can ...

(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 Örebro Airport is located 10 kilometers southwest of Örebro and is Sweden's 23rd-largest passenger airport and the fourth-largest cargo airport. It was opened in 1979. The airport handled approximately 150,000 passengers in 2019. Airlines and ...

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 Baghdad International Airport , previously Saddam International Airport from 1982 to 2003, () is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It is the home base for Ira ...

Business

* ORB International, a London-based polling agency * Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company *

Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other governmen ...

(former NYSE stock ticker: ORB) * Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization

Other

O-ring boss seal An o-ring boss seal is a technique for joining two fluid-carrying pipes, hoses, or tubing. In an o-ring boss (abbreviated ORB) system, a male- threaded part is inserted into a female-threaded part, providing a mechanical seal. This system dif ...

, a hydraulic fitting *

Organic radical battery An organic radical battery (ORB) is a type of battery first developed in 2005. As of 2011, this type of battery was generally not available for the consumer, although their development at that time was considered to be approaching practical use. ORB ...

, 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) Orb (foaled February 24, 2010 in Kentucky) is a champion American Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who won the 2013 Kentucky Derby. Background Orb is a bay colt with a small white star (horse marking), star bred and owned by Stuart S. Janne ...

, the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby *

Orb (optics) In photography, backscatter (also called near-camera reflection) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to the camera's flash being reflected from unfocused motes of dust, water droplets, or other ...

, an optical artifact