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Ovidiu-Victor Ganț
Ovidiu-Victor Ganț, born in 1966, is a Romanian politician of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania who has represented the German minority in the Chamber of Deputies since 2004.
Ovie Ejaria
Ovie Ejaria (born 1997, London) is an English left-footed midfielder, ex-Arsenal and Liverpool academy, England U20 World Cup winner 2017, later Reading and Real Oviedo; free agent since June 2026.
Ovie Soko
Ovie Soko, British basketball forward (born 1991, London), Duquesne standout, Murcia BCL Final Four player, Love Island 2019 star, Great Britain international, London Lions captain, retired 2026.
Oviedo
Oviedo (Uviéu), capital of Asturias, Spain: 8th-century royal foundation, capital of the Asturian kingdom until about 924, UNESCO pre-Romanesque monuments, Princess of Asturias Awards, and recurring high placings in European quality-of-life rankings.
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Ovijit Chaudhuri is a Stanford professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering known for showing that extracellular matrix viscoelasticity, not just stiffness, regulates stem cell spreading and differentiation.
Oville Formation
Oville Formation, Cambrian shale-sandstone unit in the Cantabrian Zone, northern Spain, defined by Comte; Middle Cambrian (Acadian) base with trilobites and IMC1-IMC6 acritarch zones, overlain by the Ordovician Barrios Formation.
Ovimbundu caravan trade
The Ovimbundu caravan trade was the long-distance porter trade of the Ovimbundu kingdoms of central Angola, linking the port of Benguela with the interior from the late eighteenth century until about 1900.
Ovince Saint Preux
Ovince Saint Preux ("OSP"), born 1983, is a Haitian-American UFC light heavyweight, 27-18-0, former Tennessee Volunteers linebacker, and record holder of four UFC Von Flue choke submissions.
Ovine
Ovine: adjective meaning of, relating to, or resembling sheep (Ovis aries), from Latin ovis; used in veterinary medicine and research, as in ovine scrapie, ovine Johne's disease, and ovine colostrum.
Ovine epididymitis
Ovine epididymitis, or Brucella ovis infection, is a WOAH-listed venereal sheep disease causing epididymitis and infertility in rams, ewe abortions, and lamb mortality; non-zoonotic, diagnosed by culture and serology.
Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma
Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (jaagsiekte, sheep pulmonary adenomatosis) is a contagious lung cancer of sheep caused by jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV), a betaretrovirus whose Env protein is an oncoprotein; endemic worldwide except Australia and New Zealand, with no vaccine.
Ovintiv
Ovintiv is a Denver-based oil and gas company formed in 2020 when Canada's Encana Corporation reorganized as an American company, operating in the Permian and Montney.
Oviparity
Oviparity, also called egg-laying, is the ancestral reproductive mode in which eggs develop outside the mother's body; found in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and invertebrates, contrasted with viviparity.
Ovipositor
Ovipositor: the egg-laying organ of female insects, a valve-based abdominal structure used to insert eggs into soil, plants, or hosts; modified into the sting of wasps and bees and a model for surgical needles.
Oviraptor
Oviraptor (Oviraptor philoceratops) is a small feathered Mongolian theropod dinosaur named "egg thief" by Osborn in 1924; later embryo and brooding-nest fossils showed it was incubating its own eggs, not stealing Protoceratops eggs.
Oviraptoridae
Oviraptoridae, an Asian Late Cretaceous family of feathered, toothless theropod dinosaurs including Oviraptor and Citipati; named "egg thief" in error, they are now known to have brooded ring-shaped nests of their own eggs.
Ovis
Ovis: genus of Caprini containing domestic sheep and wild sheep (argali, urial, mouflon, bighorn, thinhorn, snow sheep). Eight species by one framework; 2n 52-58; domesticated from mouflon ~11,000 years ago.
Ovis ammon
Ovis ammon, the argali or mountain wild sheep of Central and East Asia, is the largest wild sheep (65-185 kg), IUCN Near Threatened since 2020, with up to nine disputed subspecies including Marco Polo sheep.
Ovis hodgsoni
Ovis hodgsoni, the Tibetan Argali (Ovis ammon hodgsoni), is a wild sheep of the Tibetan Plateau; treated as a species by ITIS and a subspecies by NCBI, near threatened, 29,200–36,200 individuals.
Oviva
Oviva is a European digital health company founded in Switzerland in 2014, offering app-based dietary and chronic-condition coaching reimbursed by health systems in Germany, the UK, and Switzerland.
Oviya (ஓவியா)
Oviya (ஓவியா), born Helen Nelson in 1991 in Thrissur, Kerala, is an Indian actress known for Tamil cinema's Kalavani (2010) and Bigg Boss Tamil season 1 (2017), with an 'Oviya Army' fanbase and a 2018 singing debut in 90 ML.
Ovo Energy
Ovo Energy is a British domestic gas and electricity supplier founded by Stephen Fitzpatrick in 2009 and based in Bristol, at one point serving 3.5 million customers.
OVO Sound
OVO Sound is a Toronto-based Canadian hip-hop and R&B record label co-founded in 2012 by Drake, Noah "40" Shebib, and Oliver El-Khatib, distinct from the OVO lifestyle brand sold under Authentic Brands Group.
Ovoid (projective geometry)
An ovoid in finite projective geometry is a set of q²+1 points in PG(3,q) with no three collinear, used to build inversive planes, generalized quadrangles, and error-correcting codes.
Ovonic threshold switch
The ovonic threshold switch is a two-terminal chalcogenide glass device that switches on above a threshold voltage, used as a selector in Intel Optane memory.
Ovonic threshold switching
Ovonic threshold switching is a volatile effect in amorphous chalcogenide glasses where resistivity drops sharply above a threshold voltage; the switch serves as the selector in 3D cross-point memories like Intel's Optane.
Ovonramwen
Ovonramwen was the Oba of Benin from about 1888 until the British conquest of 1897, after which he was exiled to Calabar, dying there in 1914.
Ovotesticular disorder of sex development
Ovotesticular disorder of sex development, formerly called true hermaphroditism, is a congenital condition in which both ovarian and testicular tissue are present in the same individual.
Ovoviviparity
Ovoviviparity, also called yolk-sac or lecithotrophic viviparity, is live birth in which retained eggs hatch internally and embryos feed only on egg yolk, seen in coelacanths, some sharks, guppies, garter snakes, and cockroaches.
Ovruch Raion
Ovruch Raion (Овруцький район) was a 1923-founded district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Ovruch; area 3.2 thousand km², 62,000 residents (2008), abolished in the 2020 reform and absorbed into Korosten Raion.