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orbs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for orbs.

Editorial note

Chrome on OSX here, it originally rendered the orbs, but then once the Earth was rendered they disappeared.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of orbs gathered in one view.

noun

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

noun

An orbit of an heavenly body

noun

A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for orbs.

noun

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

noun

An orbit of an heavenly body

noun

A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power

noun

A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))

Example sentences

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Chrome on OSX here, it originally rendered the orbs, but then once the Earth was rendered they disappeared.

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For example, in February 2010 twentyfour spies located over 3000 potential ORBs in a single work day (Figure 19).

3

But why planets in space and not magic orbs in a dungeon?

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Also it's only going to be a matter of time, until some other criminal(s) gets access to their ORBs & start ddosing or blackmailing everybody with impunity.

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That's the source of all problems, ORMs, ORBs, persistence layers, etc.

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Years of staring at bad screens has turned my eyes into ruined orbs, but now, finally, I’d encountered a computer display that was good to them.

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The covert infrastructure includes so-called Operational Relay Boxes (ORBs), which are used to hide the location of the attacker when the Five Eyes launch exploits against targets or steal data (Figure 18).

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>Freund says common forms of earthquake lights include bluish flames that appear to come out of the ground at ankle height; orbs of light called ball lightning that float in the air for tens of seconds or even minutes Perhaps coincidental and unrelated, but similar orbs have been reported in conjunction with crop circle events.

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) hooked up to serial ports on our PCs and had a Ruby server polling our logging db for different activities (commits to the repo, errors on live, etc...) and would change the colors on the Orbs accordingly using their developer API.

Quote examples

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Bruce Schneier made a couple of observations on the slide decks[2]: 24 people were able to identify "a list of 3000+ potential ORBs" in 5-8 hours.

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This is so awesome, and render beautifully in Firefox, but I can't seem to get the "orbs" (the actual objects) to render themselves in Chrome.

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(E)xfiltration They're litterally running nmap for the reconnaissance part but I believe the "heinous" qualifier apply to the rest of the plan, which according to figure 18 consists in acquiring "as many new ORBs as possible in as many non 5-Eyes countries as possible".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use orbs in a sentence?

Chrome on OSX here, it originally rendered the orbs, but then once the Earth was rendered they disappeared.

What does orbs mean?

A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

What part of speech is orbs?

orbs is commonly used as noun.