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Oblique photogrammetry
Oblique photogrammetry builds 3D models of terrain and buildings from aerial photos with the camera tilted more than 5° from vertical, capturing facades as well as ground detail.
Oblique photography
Oblique photography is an aerial imaging technique with the camera tilted more than five degrees off-vertical, recording building sides and terrain as well as their tops.
Oblique plane microscopy
Oblique plane microscopy (OPM) is a fluorescence light-sheet microscopy technique in which a single objective both illuminates and images a tilted plane inside a specimen, first demonstrated in 2008.
Oblique projection
Oblique projection, or oblique view, is a parallel projection in technical drawing where the front face is shown true size and depth is drawn at an angle.
Oblique shock
An oblique shock is a shock wave in supersonic flow, inclined to the oncoming stream, across which pressure, temperature, and density rise and the flow turns toward the shock.
Oblique Strategies
Oblique Strategies (Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a card deck for breaking creative blocks, created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, first published 1975 in a 113-card, 500-copy signed edition; used on Bowie's Berlin trilogy.
Oblique wing
The oblique wing, also called the scissors wing, is a single wing pivoted so one half sweeps forward and the other backward, tested by NASA's AD-1.
Obliterated
Obliterated (2023) is a Netflix action-comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, starring Shelley Hennig and Nick Zano; one eight-episode season about an intoxicated special forces team, canceled February 2024.
Oblivion (2013 film)
Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, based on his unpublished graphic novel; it earned $287.9 million worldwide.
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (ホッタラケの島 〜遥と魔法の鏡〜)
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (ホッタラケの島 〜遥と魔法の鏡〜) is a 2009 Japanese full-CG animated fantasy by Shinsuke Sato and Production I.G for Fuji TV's 50th anniversary, following 16-year-old Haruka into a world of forgotten items to recover her late mother's hand mirror from the Baron.
Oblivious transfer
Oblivious transfer (OT) is a two-party cryptographic protocol in which a receiver learns exactly one of the sender's messages while the sender learns nothing about which was taken.
Oblomov
Oblomov (Обломов) is an 1859 novel by Ivan Goncharov whose hero, the landowner Ilya Oblomov, lies on his sofa while his estate decays, giving Russian the word "oblomovshchina" for such inertia.
Oblong Industries
Oblong Industries, also known as Oblong, Inc., is a Los Angeles software company founded in 2006 by John Underkoffler, known for its Mezzanine visual collaboration platform.
Obo Addy
Obo Addy (1936–2012) was a Ghanaian Ga master drummer and composer who pioneered Worldbeat, based in Portland, Oregon, and won a 1996 NEA National Heritage Fellowship.
OBO Foundry
The OBO Foundry (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies Foundry) is a community-run consortium, set out in a 2007 paper, that coordinates interoperable, openly licensed ontologies for the biological and biomedical sciences.
ObOd study
ObOd (Obesity and Oral Diseases in Adult Patients, NCT04602572) is a University of Bergen prospective cohort study of 400 obese adults at Haukeland University Hospital, tracking periodontal and caries outcomes over 18 months after non-surgical or bariatric weight-loss treatment.
Obodas I
Obodas I (Arabic: Ubaydah) was a Nabataean king of the early 1st century BC who defeated the Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus and, at Cana, killed Antiochus XII.
Obodas II
Obodas II was, under the traditional chronology, a king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 62 to 59 BC, between Aretas III and Malichus I.
Obodas III
Obodas III was king of the Nabataeans from about 30 BC to 9 BC, known for deflecting Roman expansion through his minister Syllaeus and for later worship as Zeus-Obodas.
Oboe
The oboe, also called hautboy, is a double-reed woodwind pitched in C, developed in France in the 1650s and a standard member of the orchestra.
Obolon
Obolon (Оболонь) is a northern Kyiv district on the Dnipro, formed as Minskyi district in 1975, with over 320,000 residents; the name also covers Obolon Corporation's brewery and FC Obolon Kyiv of the Ukrainian Premier League.
Obolon (company)
Obolon (Оболонь) is a Ukrainian beverage corporation headquartered in Kyiv, founded in 1980 as Kyiv Brewery #3 and privatized in 1992 as independent Ukraine's first private enterprise.
Obolus
Obolus (Eichwald, 1829) is an extinct obolid linguloid brachiopod genus from the Middle Cambrian to earliest Ordovician, known from the "Obolus sands" of Estonia and Ingria, Russia; type species disputed between O. apollinis and O. labradoricus.
OBOY
OBOY, born Mihaja Ramiarinarivo in Madagascar in 1997, is a French rapper of the cloud rap and mumble rap scene, known for the hits "TDB" and "Cabeza".
Obra Thermal Power Station
Obra Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station at Obra in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh, India, owned by UPRVUNL and expanded with two 660 MW supercritical units completed in 2024 and 2025.
Obraje
An obraje was a colonial textile mill in Spanish America that relied heavily on coerced indigenous labor and was central to the economies of New Spain and Peru.
Obrajes of Quito
The Obrajes of Quito were colonial Ecuador's woolen textile workshops, which made the region the leading cloth producer of the Viceroyalty of Peru from the late 1500s.
Obras históricas de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl
The Obras históricas de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl are histories of the Toltecs, Chichimecs, and Tetzcoco, written in the early 17th century by a Texcocan noble descended from Nezahualcóyotl.
Obras por Impuestos (Peru)
Obras por Impuestos (Works for Taxes, OxI) is a Peruvian mechanism under which private companies finance public investment projects and recover the money through income tax certificates.
Obrenović dynasty
The Obrenović dynasty (Обреновићи) was a Serbian ruling house that governed Serbia from 1815 to 1842 and again from 1858 to 1903, alternating power with the rival Karađorđević dynasty.