Ord
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ORD may refer to:
People
- Boris OrdBoris OrdBoris Ord , born Bernhard Ord, was an English organist, composer and musical director best known as the choir master of King's College, Cambridge....
(1897-1961, British composer - Edward OrdEdward OrdEdward Otho Cresap Ord was the designer of Fort Sam Houston, and a United States Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War. He commanded an army during the final days of the Civil War, and was instrumental in forcing the surrender of Confederate...
(1818-1883, Major General in the US Army - George OrdGeorge OrdGeorge Ord was an American ornithologist.Ord was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a rope maker and Ord joined him in the business, continuing after his father's death in 1806...
(1781-1866), zoologist - William OrdWilliam OrdWilliam Henry Ord was an English Whig politician and landowner, the son of William Ord and Eleanor Brandling.He inherited estates and coal and lead mining interests at Whitfield, Northumberland on the death of his father. His residence was Whitfield Hall...
(1781–1855), English Whig politician and landowner
Places
- Ord, NebraskaOrd, NebraskaOrd is a city in Valley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 2,269 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Valley County. Ord was named in honor of Civil War general Edward O. C...
, USA - Ord, NorthumberlandOrd, NorthumberlandOrd is a civil parish in Northumberland, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population 1,365. The parish is situated to the south-west of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and includes the settlements of East Ord and Murton...
, England - Muir of OrdMuir of OrdMuir of Ord is a village in Highland, Scotland. It is situated near the western boundary of the Black Isle, about 20 km west of the city of Inverness, and 10 km south of Dingwall...
, village in Highland, Scotland - Ord RiverOrd RiverThe Ord River is a 320-kilometre-long river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It was named in honour of Harry Ord, Governor of Western Australia from 1877 to 1880....
, Western Australia- Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird AreaOrd Irrigation Area Important Bird AreaThe Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area is an area of land used for irrigated agriculture along the Ord River in the vicinity of the town of Kununurra in the Kimberley region of north-western Australia...
- Ord River Floodplain Ramsar Site
- Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area
- Ord Township, Nebraska (disambiguation), name of two townships in Nebraska, USA
- East OrdEast OrdEast Ord is a village in Northumberland, England about south west of Berwick Upon Tweed. It lies on the south bank of the River Tweed adjacent to the A1 Road.- History :...
, Northumberland, UK - Fort OrdFort OrdFort Ord was a U.S. Army post on Monterey Bay in California. It was established in 1917 as a maneuver area and field artillery target range and was closed in September 1994. Fort Ord was one of the most attractive locations of any U.S. Army post, because of its proximity to the beach and California...
, California, USA
Mathematics
- Ord = the category of preordered setsCategory of preordered setsThe category Ord has preordered sets as objects and monotonic functions as morphisms. This is a category because the composition of two monotonic functions is monotonic and the identity map is monotonic....
- Ord = the proper class of all ordinal numberOrdinal numberIn set theory, an ordinal number, or just ordinal, is the order type of a well-ordered set. They are usually identified with hereditarily transitive sets. Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers different from integers and from cardinals...
s - ord(V) = the order typeOrder typeIn mathematics, especially in set theory, two ordered sets X,Y are said to have the same order type just when they are order isomorphic, that is, when there exists a bijection f: X → Y such that both f and its inverse are monotone...
of a well-ordered set V
Fiction
- Ord (Iron Kingdoms), a nation in the Privateer PressPrivateer PressPrivateer Press is an award-winning role-playing game and miniature wargame production and publishing studio founded in 2000 by Brian Snōddy, Matt Staroscik and Matt Wilson. Mike McVey joined the partnership early on as Miniatures Director...
Full Metal Fantasy Genre - A prefix for several planets in the Star WarsStar WarsStar Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
universeFictional universeA fictional universe is a self-consistent fictional setting with elements that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed or fictional realm ....
, such as Ord Mantell - Ord (comics)Ord (comics)Ord is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. Ord is an enemy of the X-Men. He first appeared in Astonishing X-Men #1 in May 2004. He was created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.- Ord's mission :...
, a Marvel Comics character - Ord (Dragon Tales), one of the characters in the children's television series Dragon Tales on PBS
ORD may refer to:
- O'Hare International AirportO'Hare International AirportChicago O'Hare International Airport , also known as O'Hare Airport, O'Hare Field, Chicago Airport, Chicago International Airport, or simply O'Hare, is a major airport located in the northwestern-most corner of Chicago, Illinois, United States, northwest of the Chicago Loop...
(IATA airport code "ORD"), an airport in Chicago, U.S. - Object-relational databaseObject-relational databaseAn object-relational database , or object-relational database management system , is a database management system similar to a relational database, but with an object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas and in the query language...
- Office of Rare Diseases of the United States National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
(NIH) - Optical rotatory dispersionOptical rotatory dispersionOptical rotatory dispersion is the variation in the optical rotation of a substance with a change in the wavelength of light. Optical rotatory dispersion can be used to find the absolute configuration of metal complexes....
, a form of spectroscopy used to determine the optical isomerism and secondary structure of molecules - Object Relation Diagram