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ORB(Object Request Broker) Software that handles the communication of messages from the requesting program (client) to the object as well as any return values from the object back to the calling program. See CORBA and DCOM. See also ORB disk. orb Obsolete or poetic a. a celestial body, esp the earth or sun b. the orbit of a celestial body ORB [ȯrbor¦ō¦är′bē] (computer science)
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The Yankees all turned their gaze toward her resplendent orb, kissed their hands, called her by all kinds of endearing names. During a period of general business prosperity he set up The Orb Bank and The Sceptre Trust, simply, it seems for advertising purposes. Now could the sun be brought in contact with this orbit, and had the latter solidity to mark its circumference, it would be found that this circumference would include but a little more than half the surface of one side of the sun, the diameter of which orb is calculated to be 882,000 miles |
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