meaning of orb
1. A blank window or panel.
2. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
3. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
4. A circle; esp. , a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
5. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
6. The eye, as luminous and spherical.
7. A revolving circular body; a wheel.
8. A sphere of action.
9. Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
10. A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
11. To form into an orb or circle.
12. To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
13. To become round like an orb.
14. ORB Object Request Broker Orbit A Scheme compiler. ["Orbit: An Optimising Compiler for Scheme", D. A. Kranz et al, SIGPLAN Notices 217:281-292 Jul 1986].
15. the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
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