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Orient International Shanghai Foreign Trade Co., Ltd.
Orient International Shanghai Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. (东方国际集团上海市对外贸易有限公司) is a state-owned foreign trade company in Shanghai, formed in 1988, that imports bulk raw materials and exports manufactured goods.
Orient Overseas Container Line
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL; Chinese: 东方海外货柜航运公司) is a Hong Kong container shipping company founded by C Y Tung and owned since 2018 by COSCO SHIPPING Holdings.
Orient Securities
Orient Securities (东方证券) is a Shanghai-headquartered Chinese securities firm offering brokerage, asset management, and investment banking, listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong and planning to acquire Shanghai Securities in 2026.
Orient Watch (オリエント時計)
Orient Watch (オリエント時計) is a Japanese watch brand founded in 1950 that specializes in affordable mechanical wristwatches with in-house movements, and has been owned by Seiko Epson since 2017.
Orientability
Orientability is a property of a surface or manifold stating whether a consistent orientation, such as clockwise, can be assigned continuously over the entire space; spheres are orientable, Möbius bands are not.
Oriental Bank of Commerce
Oriental Bank of Commerce was an Indian public-sector bank founded in Lahore in 1943 by Lala Sohan Lal, nationalized in 1980, and merged into Punjab National Bank in 2020.
Oriental cockroach
Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), also called black beetle or water bug: a flightless, dark Blattidae cockroach about 22-27 mm long from Africa or south Russia, living in damp basements and sewers and a major household pest and allergen source.
Oriental Crisis of 1840
The Oriental Crisis of 1840 was the confrontation of 1839 to 1841 in which Britain and allied powers forced Muhammad Ali of Egypt to evacuate Syria.
Oriental Development Company
The Oriental Development Company (Toyo Takushoku) was a Japanese national policy company, established in Seoul in 1908 to manage colonial Korea through land purchase and settlement.
Oriental Energy Resources
Oriental Energy Resources Limited is a privately owned Nigerian crude oil exploration and production company founded in 1990 by businessman Muhammadu Indimi and headquartered in Abuja.
Oriental Exodus
The Oriental Exodus, also known as the Redota, was the mass departure of the rural population of the Banda Oriental, following José Gervasio de Artigas in 1811.
Oriental Land
Oriental Land Co., Ltd. (オリエンタルランド) is a Japanese resort operator founded in 1960 that owns and runs Tokyo Disney Resort under license from Disney, which holds no ownership stake.
Oriental Land (site)
Oriental Land (东方绿舟) is a large education-and-leisure park opened in 2001 near Dianshan Lake in Qingpu District, Shanghai, run by the city education commission, with a full-scale replica aircraft carrier, 16 scenic spots, and AAAA rating.
Oriental magpie-robin
Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis, 鵲鴝), a 19–21 cm black-and-white Muscicapidae songbird from Pakistan to south China and Southeast Asia; IUCN Least Concern, endangered in Singapore.
Oriental Mindoro
Oriental Mindoro, eastern half of Mindoro island in MIMAROPA, Philippines; capital Calapan; created 1950 by RA 505; 919,504 people (2024), 4,364.72 sq km, home of the endemic tamaraw and seven Mangyan tribes.
Oriental Orthodox Churches
The Oriental Orthodox Churches, or Oriental Orthodoxy, are six self-governing Eastern Christian churches, including the Coptic and Armenian, that reject the Council of Chalcedon of 451.
Oriental Orthodox theology
Oriental Orthodox theology is the shared doctrine of the Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Armenian, Syriac, and Malankara churches, which rejected the Council of Chalcedon of 451.
Oriental Pearl Tower
Oriental Pearl Tower (东方明珠广播电视塔), a 468 m TV and sightseeing tower in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. Built 1991-1994 without state funding, it was Asia's tallest tower at completion, with 11 spheres inspired by a Tang poem and 100 million visitors by 2024.
Oriental Revolution
The Oriental Revolution (Revolución Oriental) was the armed uprising of the rural population of the Banda Oriental, now Uruguay, against Spanish rule from 1811 to 1820, led by José Gervasio Artigas.
Oriental riff
Oriental riff (East Asian riff, Chinaman lick): a nine-note Western-composed melodic cliché tracing to 1847 Aladdin stage shows, used in songs like Kung Fu Fighting (1974) and Turning Japanese (1980) to signify East Asia.
Oriental Science Fiction Valley VR Theme Park
Oriental Science Fiction Valley (东方科幻谷) was China's first large VR theme park in Guiyang, Guizhou, opened April 29, 2018 with 15 halls, a 51.8 m robot, and later closed before a planned revival.
Oriental Shorthair
Oriental Shorthair: a Siamese-type cat breed without point markings, developed in Europe in the 1950s, with over 150 colors and patterns, green eyes, CFA registration in 1974 and championship status in 1977.
Oriental Village
Oriental Village (Burau Bay, Langkawi) is an open-air shopping and entertainment complex at the foot of Mount Mat Cincang, base of the Langkawi Cable Car (SkyCab) and SkyBridge, with free entry, 95-plus outlets, and paid attractions.
Orientalism
Orientalism: Western scholarship on Asian societies and a 19th-century school of painting of the East by Delacroix, Gérôme, and others, redefined by Edward Said's 1978 critique as a system of colonial knowledge.
Orientalism (book)
Orientalism (1978) is Edward Said's critique of Western scholarship and representation of the Middle East, arguing the Orient was constructed as Europe's inferior opposite; foundational to postcolonial studies and famously debated with Bernard Lewis.
Orientation distribution function
The orientation distribution function (ODF) is a probability density describing how crystallites in a polycrystalline material are oriented, the central quantity of texture analysis, typically recovered from diffraction pole figures.
Orientation mapping (crystallography)
Orientation mapping in crystallography measures and images the local crystallographic orientation of grains across a material's surface, most often using electron backscatter diffraction in a scanning electron microscope.
Orientation test
The orientation test is a bedside component of the mental status examination that probes a patient's awareness of person, place, time, and situation, documented as alert and oriented times three or four.
Orientation workspace
The orientation workspace of a manipulator is the set of all orientations its end-effector or mobile platform can attain while a reference point on it stays fixed.
Oriente
The Oriente, also known as the Amazonía or Región Amazónica, is the eastern, Amazonian region of Ecuador, east of the Andes, home to Yasuní National Park and major oil fields.