ORC
English
editProper noun
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- Initialism of Orange River Colony.
- Acronym of Otago Regional Council.
- Abbreviation of Oregon City.
Noun
editORC (countable and uncountable, plural ORCs)
- (astronomy) Acronym of odd radio circle, a very large unexplained astronomical object. [from 2019]
- 2024 January 12, Deirdre Stires, “Those odd circles in space? They’re now explained thanks to scientists including Aleks Diamond-Stanic”, in Bates News[1]:
- Even those who never look into the night sky and wonder about stars or galaxies may find the new research interesting, Diamond-Stanic said, because ORCs help to explain how the galaxy we live in came to be.
- Initialism of organized retail crime.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of origin recognition complex.