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Obigbo North gas field
Obigbo North is an operating onshore oil and gas field in Rivers State, Nigeria, north-east of Port Harcourt in OML 17, operated by TNOG Oil and Gas.
Obihiro Zoo
Obihiro Zoo (おびひろ動物園) is a municipal zoo in Midorigaoka, Obihiro, Hokkaido, opened in 1963. Known as Japan's first to keep tropical animals through cold-tolerance methods, with polar bear Aira and native Hokkaido species.
Obilic
FK Obilić is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia, founded on 1 August 1924, whose late-1990s peak under Arkan brought the FR Yugoslav championship in 1997–98.
Obilonna
Obilonna (also Obilunnum, Obilinnum) is a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana in the Graian Alps, Savoie, France, usually identified with La Bâthie or Conflans on the Vienne to Darantasia road.
Obiltoxaximab
Obiltoxaximab (Anthim) is a monoclonal antibody against Bacillus anthracis protective antigen, FDA-approved in 2016 for treating and preventing inhalational anthrax, dosed 16 mg/kg IV, and stockpiled in the US Strategic National Stockpile.
Obilukha Corona
Obilukha Corona is a 220-km-diameter corona on Venus at 81.5°S, 19°E in quadrangle V-62, named in 1997 after an East Slavic crop protection deity, per the USGS planetary nomenclature gazetteer.
Obinutuzumab
Obinutuzumab (Gazyva, GA101) is a glycoengineered type II anti-CD20 humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody for CLL, follicular lymphoma, lupus nephritis, and idiopathic nephrotic syndrome, with enhanced ADCC and direct cell death versus rituximab.
Obinutuzumab/venetoclax regimen
The obinutuzumab/venetoclax regimen is a fixed-duration combination of the antibody obinutuzumab and the oral BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax, used to treat previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Obiter dictum
Obiter dictum is a judicial remark not required to decide a case, such as Justice Harlan F. Stone's observation in United States v. Carolene Products, which influenced strict scrutiny.
Obito Uchiha (うちはオビト)
Obito Uchiha (うちはオビト, Uchiha Obito) is a Naruto character, Kakashi's Uchiha teammate presumed dead at Kannabi Bridge who returned as Tobi, controlled the Akatsuki, started the Fourth Shinobi World War, became the Ten-Tails jinchuriki, and died redeemed.
Obituary
Obituary: a published account of a person's life and death, distinct from the brief paid death notice and the spoken eulogy. Traced from 17th-century English newsbooks to digital platforms, advance obituaries, and roughly $500 million in annual US revenue.
Obituary (band)
Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in the Tampa, Florida area and one of the pioneering groups of the Florida death metal scene.
Obituary (TV series)
Obituary is a 2023 Irish black comedy series created by Ray Lawlor for RTÉ, starring Siobhán Cullen as obituarist Elvira Clancy, who murders townspeople for €200-per-obituary income; two seasons, Hulu and RTÉ One.
Object (computer science)
In computer science, an object is a region of storage combining state, behavior, and identity, the core concept of object-oriented programming, first introduced by the 1967 language Simula 67.
Object (grammar)
Object (grammar): a noun phrase or pronoun in a grammatical relation to a verb, traditionally direct or indirect object, one of five clause elements, traditionally the receiver or goal of an action, with word order and case varying across languages.
Object Constraint Language
The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a formal, textual language for expressing constraints and queries on UML models, standardized by the Object Management Group as a UML companion.
Object database
An object database, also known as an object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), stores programming-language objects directly, so applications read and write objects without converting them to tables and rows.
Object discrimination task
The object discrimination task is a behavioral paradigm in which an animal learns which of two or more objects is rewarded, used to assess perception, learning, and memory.
Object Linking and Embedding
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a Microsoft technology that lets a document contain objects from other applications, either as live links or embedded copies.
Object Management Group
The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open-membership, not-for-profit standards consortium founded in 1989, whose members develop enterprise standards including UML, CORBA, DDS, and BPMN.
Object of the mind
An object of the mind, or intentional object, is whatever a mental state is about or directed toward, whether or not it exists; Franz Brentano introduced the concept in 1874.
Object Pascal
Object Pascal is a family of object-oriented extensions of Pascal, created at Apple in 1985 by Larry Tesler and Niklaus Wirth and best known today through Embarcadero Delphi.
Object permanence
Object permanence: the Piagetian concept that objects continue to exist when not perceived, developing in the sensorimotor stage (milestones near 8, 12, 18 months), with looking-time studies pushing evidence of understanding to 3.5-4 months.
Object Process Methodology
Object Process Methodology (OPM) is a conceptual modeling language for specifying complex systems in a single model, developed by Dov Dori and published as ISO 19450:2024.
Object relations theory
Object relations theory is a psychoanalytic school holding that the mind develops through internalized relationships with caregivers, especially the mother, developed by theorists including Melanie Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott.
Object sexuality
Object sexuality (objectum sexuality, objectophilia) is a sexual orientation involving romantic and sexual attraction to inanimate objects such as bridges or the Berlin Wall; research links it to autism and object-personification synaesthesia, and it is not a DSM-5 or ICD-11 diagnosis.
Object storage
Object storage, also called blob storage, is a data storage architecture that manages data as objects with metadata and identifiers, accessed through APIs rather than file systems.
Object-based image analysis
Object-based image analysis (OBIA), also called geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), is a remote sensing method that segments satellite or aerial imagery into meaningful objects and classifies them instead of individual pixels.
Object-oriented analysis and design
Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a software engineering approach that models a system as objects, using analysis to model the domain and design to model the software.
Object-oriented ontology
Object-oriented ontology (OOO), founded by Graham Harman and named by Levi Bryant in 2009, is a speculative realist philosophy of flat ontology, withdrawn real objects, and aesthetics, influential in the humanities.