Orb

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
 * 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
 * Yard globe
 * "The orb", a symbolic object featured during the 2017 Arab Islamic American Summit