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Odd Future Records (record label)
Odd Future Records is an American record label created in April 2011 by the Los Angeles hip hop collective Odd Future, which partnered with Sony's RED Distribution while keeping its masters.
Odd Hassel
Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist at the University of Oslo who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that molecules take several interconverting three-dimensional shapes.
Odd Magnus Faltinsen
Odd Magnus Faltinsen, born 1944 in Stavanger, Norway, is a Norwegian marine hydrodynamicist and Professor Emeritus at NTNU, known for wave loads, slamming, and sloshing theories.
Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out: 1947 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, starring James Mason as wounded IRA-style gunman Johnny McQueen hunted through Belfast; adapted from F. L. Green's novel, shot by Robert Krasker, winner of the 1947 British Film Academy Best Film award.
Odd Martinsen
Odd-Willy Martinsen (1942–2025), Norwegian cross-country skier nicknamed Stafett-Martin; 1968 Olympic relay gold and 30 km silver, 1976 relay silver, five World Championship medals, Holmenkollen Medal 1969, FIS Cross-Country Committee chairman 1986–2002, father of Bente Skari.
Odd radio circle
An odd radio circle (ORC) is a large, faint ring-shaped radio source surrounding a distant galaxy, named in 2021 after discoveries with the ASKAP telescope.
Odd Squad: The Movie
Odd Squad: The Movie is a 2016 PBS KIDS television film directed by J.J. Johnson, in which the kid agents battle the rival Weird Team; it won a Daytime Emmy for writing and a Canadian Screen Award.
Odd Taxi (オッドタクシー)
Odd Taxi (オッドタクシー, ODDTAXI) is a 2021 Japanese original anime mystery-thriller, 13 episodes, about walrus taxi driver Hiroshi Odokawa; planned by P.I.C.S. with OLM, directed by Mugi Kinoshitu, scored by PUNPEE, VaVa and OMSB, New Face Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Odd Thomas (film)
Odd Thomas (film): 2013 American supernatural thriller written and directed by Stephen Sommers from Dean Koontz's 2003 novel, starring Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, and Willem Dafoe; delayed by legal disputes, released limited February 28, 2014.
Odd Thomas (novel)
Odd Thomas (2003) is Dean Koontz's supernatural thriller about a fry cook in Pico Mundo, California, who sees the dead and uncovers a planned catastrophe; first of seven novels, adapted to film by Stephen Sommers.
Odd viscosity
Odd viscosity, also called Hall viscosity or gyroviscosity, is the antisymmetric, non-dissipative part of a fluid's viscosity tensor, seen in quantum Hall fluids, superfluids, magnetized plasmas, and chiral active matter.
Odd viscosity in active matter
Odd viscosity in chiral active fluids, also known as Hall viscosity, is a dissipationless viscosity coefficient arising in fluids of self-spinning particles, producing flow perpendicular to an applied pressure gradient.
Odd-eyed cat
Odd-eyed cat: a domestic cat with complete heterochromia iridis, one blue and one differently colored iris, caused by KIT white/white-spotting genes; deafness risk about 20% in odd-eyed white cats.
Odda (town)
Odda is a town of 4,750 inhabitants (2025) at the head of Sørfjorden in Ullensvang, Vestland, Norway, and one of the country's first industrial towns, built around Odda Smelteverk (1908–2003), the Tyssedal hydropower station, and the Odda nitrophosphate fertilizer process.
Oddball (film)
Oddball is a 2015 Australian family comedy directed by Stuart McDonald, starring Shane Jacobson, based on the true Middle Island Maremma Project in which a dog guarded Warrnambool's penguins from foxes; it earned $11 million.
Oddball paradigm
The oddball paradigm is an experimental design in cognitive psychology and neuroscience in which rare deviant stimuli among frequent standards elicit the P300, a measure of attention and stimulus evaluation.
Oddball task
The oddball task is an experimental paradigm in which participants detect rare target stimuli among frequent standards, reliably eliciting the P300, a brain response used as a biomarker of cognitive function.
Oddbjørn Hagen
Oddbjørn Hagen was a Norwegian Nordic combined and cross-country skier who won Olympic gold at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and world titles in 1934 and 1935.
Oddbods
Oddbods is a non-dialogue CGI slapstick comedy series created by Richard Thomas at Singapore's One Animation, following seven colorful characters (Fuse, Newt, Pogo, Bubbles, Jeff, Zee, Slick) in Oddsville; launched internationally in 2013, Emmy-nominated, broadcast in over 180 countries.
Oddibjord Tessera
Oddibjord Tessera, a 900-km-wide tessera highland on Venus at 82N 85E, IAU-named 1997 for a Scandinavian fortune deity; group 7 emissivity class, too short for mineralogical assignment.
Oddity (film)
Oddity is a 2024 Irish supernatural horror film written and directed by Damian McCarthy, starring Carolyn Bracken and Gwilym Lee; a blind medium avenges her twin's murder, winning SXSW's Midnight Audience Award and 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Oddjob
Oddjob is the mute Korean bodyguard of Auric Goldfinger in Fleming's 1959 novel and the 1964 film Goldfinger, played by Olympic weightlifter Harold Sakata, armed with a steel-brimmed bowler hat and killed by electrocution at Fort Knox.
Odds
Odds are a way of expressing how likely an event is as a ratio of the chance that it happens to the chance that it does not happen.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) is a Robert Wise film noir heist drama starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, and Ed Begley, written by blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, scored by John Lewis, and centered on racism destroying a bank robbery.
Odds ratio
The odds ratio (OR), also called the log odds ratio, is a biostatistical measure of association computed as the ratio of odds of an outcome between exposed and unexposed groups.
Odds ratio preference optimization
Odds ratio preference optimization (ORPO) is a single-stage preference alignment method for large language models that merges fine-tuning and preference optimization without a reference model, introduced at KAIST in 2024.
Oddworld
Oddworld: video game franchise by Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna's Oddworld Inhabitants (1994), beginning with Abe's Oddysee (1997); satirical alien world of exploitation, including Munch's Oddysee, Stranger's Wrath, New 'n' Tasty, and Soulstorm.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is a 2D puzzle-platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive, released in 1998 as a direct sequel to Abe's Oddysee.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a 1997 cinematic puzzle-platformer by Oddworld Inhabitants starring the Mudokon Abe, who escapes RuptureFarms using GameSpeak voice commands; remade as New 'n' Tasty in 2014.
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is a 3D puzzle-platformer by Oddworld Inhabitants and an Xbox launch title of November 2001, the third game in the Oddworld series.