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Odqan Patera

Odqan Patera is an 86-km-wide patera (volcanic depression) on Jupiter's moon Io at 42.33°S, 174.36°W, named for a Mongolian fire-spirit and IAU-approved in May 2023.

Óðr

Óðr (Odr, Od), Old Norse god of Norse mythology: husband of Freyja, father of Hnoss and Gersemi, absent on long journeys while Freyja weeps golden tears; etymologically related to Odin, possibly his older form.

ODrive

ODrive is an open-source brushless DC motor controller begun by Oskar Weigl in 2016, letting inexpensive hobby motors deliver precise torque, velocity, and position control in robotics.

ODROID-XU4

The ODROID-XU4 is a single-board computer made by the South Korean company Hardkernel, released in 2015 for about $59 with an octa-core Exynos5422, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and eMMC storage, and now discontinued.

Odronextamab

Odronextamab (REGN1979, Ordspono) is Regeneron's fully human IgG4 CD20 x CD3 bispecific antibody for relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma and DLBCL; EU conditional approval August 2024, FDA complete response letters.

Odry

Odry (Odry, Czersk municipality, Poland): a Wielbark culture, Gothic cemetery with 10 stone circles 15-33 m across, 30 barrows, and about 627 flat graves, used from the 70s-80s AD to the early 3rd century AD; protected since 1958 as a 16.91 ha archaeological and nature reserve.

Odrysian Kingdom

The Odrysian Kingdom was a Thracian state in the Balkans, founded by Teres in the early fifth century BC and made a Roman province in 46 AD.

Odsherred UNESCO Global Geopark

Odsherred UNESCO Global Geopark, Denmark's first geopark (EGN/GGN 2014, UNESCO 2015), covers 355 km² of Odsherred Municipality, defined by the Ice Age Odsherred Arches formed 17,000–19,000 years ago.

Odsonne Édouard

Odsonne Édouard, French centre-forward born 1998 in Kourou, ex-PSG youth, Celtic (87 goals in 179 games), Crystal Palace, Leicester loan, now RC Lens; record France U21 scorer.

Odu Ifa

Odu Ifa (Odù Ifá) is the oral literary corpus of Yoruba Ifa divination, made up of 256 chapters called odu, memorized and recited by priests known as babalawo.

Odudu Oil and Gas Field

Odudu is an operating oil and gas field in shallow water offshore Nigeria, in block OML 100 in the southeastern Niger Delta, operated by TotalEnergies.

Oduduwa

Oduduwa (Odùduwà) is the legendary founder, first sacred king of Ile-Ife, and progenitor ancestor of the Yoruba people, from whom the royal dynasties of the principal Yoruba kingdoms claim descent; traditions differ on his origin and even gender.

Oduduwa Corona

Oduduwa Corona is a 150 km diameter corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 11°S 211.5°E, named in 1994 for the Yoruba fertility goddess, hosting a plateau-like nova and late-stage volcanic flows.

Odulimomab

Odulimomab (anti-LFA1, antibody 25.3) is a murine IgG1 monoclonal antibody against human CD11a, the LFA-1 alpha chain; the first LFA-1/ICAM-1 antibody tested clinically, in bone marrow and kidney transplant induction.

Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira (ഓടും കുതിര ചാടും കുതിര)

Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira (ഓടും കുതിര ചാടും കുതിര) is a 2025 Malayalam absurdist romantic comedy by Althaf Salim starring Fahadh Faasil and Kalyani Priyadarshan; released 29 August 2025, later on Netflix.

Odwalla

Odwalla was an American fresh-juice and smoothie company founded in 1980 in Santa Cruz, California, bought by Coca-Cola in 2001 and relaunched by Grupo Jumex in 2025.

Odysseas Androutsos

Odysseas Androutsos (Οδυσσέας Ανδρούτσος) was a Greek armatole and leading commander of the 1821 Revolution, best known for his defense of the inn of Gravia.

Odysseus (crater on Tethys)

Odysseus, giant multi-ringed impact crater (basin) on Saturn's moon Tethys, 445 km across per USGS, IAU-named 1982 for Homer's hero; young, shallow, relaxed basin linked to Ithaca Chasma.

Odysseus (δυσσεύς)

Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς; Latin Ulysses, Ulixes), king of Ithaca, son of Laertes, husband of Penelope, hero of Homer's Odyssey and his ten-year nostos from Troy, famed for mētis, the Trojan horse, and endless reinterpretation.

Odysseus Elytis

Odysseus Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης), pen name of Odysseus Alepoudelis, was a Greek poet who received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry rooted in Greek tradition.

Odyssevs Eskitzoglou

Odyssevs Eskitzoglou (Οδυσσεύς Εσκιτζόγλου), Greek sailor (1932–2018), Dragon-class Olympic gold medalist at Rome 1960 aboard Nirefs with Crown Prince Konstantinos and Georgios Zaimis; also competed at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968.

Odyssey (2025 film)

Odyssey (2025 film), a British psychological thriller by Gerard Johnson, not Nolan's The Odyssey (2026). Polly Maberly plays debt-ridden London estate agent Natasha Flynn; premiered at SXSW 2025, UK release 7 November 2025, Icon Film Distribution, 110 minutes, BBFC 18.

Odyssey (cancelled video game)

Odyssey was Blizzard Entertainment's codename for an unannounced survival game, pitched 2017 and cancelled January 25, 2024 after six years; engine problems with Synapse and Microsoft's 1,900-job restructuring ended what would have been Blizzard's first new IP since Overwatch.

Odyssey (George Chapman translation)

The Odyssey (George Chapman translation) is George Chapman's first complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey, published between 1614 and 1616, and served as the standard version until Alexander Pope's translations.

Odyssey (Illenium album)

ODYSSEY is the sixth studio album by American DJ ILLENIUM (Nicholas Miller), released February 6, 2026 on Republic Records; 19 tracks, every one a collaboration, his fourth Billboard Dance/Electronic chart-topper, tied to a nine-date Sphere residency.

Odyssey (launch platform)

Odyssey, originally Ocean Odyssey, is a converted drilling rig that served as the Sea Launch floating launch pad on the equator from 1999 to 2014.

Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)

Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation): 1996 Viking/Penguin English verse translation of Homer's epic by Princeton classicist Robert Fagles, with Bernard Knox's introduction; loose five- to six-beat free verse, the standard US classroom text, later contrasted with Emily Wilson's 2017 version.

Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια)

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), attributed to Homer, is the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus' ten-year return from Troy, composed orally in dactylic hexameter, likely late eighth or seventh century BC.

Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Richmond Lattimore translation)

Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), published 1965/1967, is a line-for-line English verse translation of Homer in a long Greek-conscious line, long a standard academic version praised by the NYT and TLS and still highly ranked among English Odysseys.

Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Robert Fitzgerald translation)

Robert Fitzgerald's 1961 English verse translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), a five-beat blank-verse rendering that won the Bollingen Prize, sold over two million copies, and remains a standard classroom translation alongside Lattimore, Fagles, and Wilson.