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Verb
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orbs, plural;
  1. Encircle; enclose

  2. Form (something) into an orb; make circular or globular

Noun
  1. A spherical body; a globe

  2. A golden globe surmounted by a cross, forming part of the regalia of a monarch

  3. A celestial body

  4. An eyeball; an eye

  5. A circle of up to 10° radius around the position of a celestial object
    • - within an orb of 1° of Mars
  1. eyeball: the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
  2. move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
  3. ball: an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire"
  4. In astrology, the orb is how much an angle made by two points differs from the exactness of an aspect. A trine, for instance, is 120 degrees. If two points were 123 degrees apart, they would be said to be in a trine with an orb of 3 degrees. ...
  5. The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others. ...
  6. The Orb is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain, primarily an adversary of Ghost Rider. Created by writer Len Wein, penciller Ross Andru, and inker Don Perlin, he first appeared in Marvel Team-Up #15 (November 1973).
  7. Orb Publications is a publisher based in Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine Orb Speculative Fiction.
  8. The term orb describes unexpected, typically circular artifacts that occur in flash photography -- sometimes with trails indicating motion -- especially common with modern compact and ultra-compact digital cameras.
  9. In physics, backscatter (or backscattering) is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction they came from. It is a diffuse reflection due to scattering, as opposed to specular reflection like a mirror. ...
  10. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star; 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; A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular ...
  11. (orbed) Having the form of an orb; round; spherical
  12. (ORBS) The orb is when a ghost/spirit uses energy from a source   (powerlines, batteries, people) so they can manifest.  This might explain why orbs form in the shape of a round ball. Many times they show up on pictures or video. There are some who can see orbs with their own eyes. ...
  13. (Orbs) This is the most common type of spirit energy to be captured on film. These will appear as solid or transparent "balls". They appear in many shapes and some colours, with white being the most common.
  14. (ORBS) A floating object usually round and size differs, believed to be the first stages of manifestation of a ghost, also reported to appear in different colours to psychics and mediums who claim they sometimes see orbs seconds before the spirit appears to communicate with them, Some believe ...
  15. (ORBS) Round, opaque lights that are captured on film and believed to be spirits or some sort of paranormal activity.  Best described as a ball of energy.
  16. (ORBS) Spherical images that appear in photographs. Often believed to represent entities. Some may even appear to have faces in them.
  17. (Orbs) A self lit ball of thoughtful movement. Usually dismissed by GPS.
  18. (Orbs) Although highly controversial amongst serious psychical researchers and parapsychologists, the concept of “orbs” is fast becoming the most common aspect of paranormal and ghost research, these faint-to-see balls of seemingly transparent light resembling magnified dust spores or droplets ...
  19. (Orbs) Any sphere of light that appears in pictures. They are usually white or pastel colored and translucent. Although many believe orbs are evidence of spirit activity, orbs can be caused by environmental things such as dust, rain, pollen, insects, etc. See Orbs: Spirits or Natural? ...
  20. (Orbs) Many investigators see “Orbs” in many, many pictures. Our group believes that 99.9% of them are simply motes of dust and other things that are just always in the air being reflecting too close to the lens while a picture is taken. ...
  21. (Orbs) Small sphere-shaped masses of energy believed to be either the beginning of an apparition or a complete manifestation unto itself.  They move on their own at various speeds.  Usually invisible to the naked eye, they are the most common anomaly captured on film. ...
  22. (Orbs) Spherical images caught on camera.  Can be white, reddish or blue.  Believed to be spiritual energy but more often times dismissed as dust particles.
  23. (Orbs) Substantive, floating circular balls with color or brightness seen in areas of high paranormal activity.
  24. (Orbs) The big roundish things above the main gate which spin around and shoot lightning.
  25. (Orbs) The space within which an aspect is judged to be effective. The term is employed to describe the arc between the point at which a platic, or wide aspect, is deemed strong enough to be operative, and the point of culmination of a partile or exact aspect. ...