ExpertGlossary terms starting with O

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organization claim A claim in intermediate or normalized form within an organization's namespace.
Organizational Custodian Business units, committees and other groups may create, modify and propagate ESI without clear individual ownership.
Organizational Forms Library A system folder on an Exchange computer that stores forms commonly accessed by users within an organization.
Organizational System Generated Custodian ESI generated from an enterprise application such as financial systems, dynamic monitoring systems and more may not have a clear Custodian.
Organizational Unit Administration Boundary, container designed as object repositories. OU contains AD objects and their properties, and data, provide groupings that can be…
Organizational unit (OU) A container object that is an Active Directory administrative partition. OUs can contain users, groups, resources, and other OUs.
organized growth The development under tissue culture conditions of organized explants (meristem tips or shoot tips, floral buds or organ primordia).
organized tissue Composed of normally differentiated cells.
Organizer Any person who discovers, creates, investigates, or initiates the tax shelter investment, devises the business or financial plans for the investment or…
organogenesis The initiation of adventitious or de novo shoots or roots from callus, meristem or suspension cultures. See: micropropagation; regeneration.
organoid An organ-like structure produced in culture.
organoleptic Having an effect on one of the organs of sense, such as taste or smell.
orgasm (OR-ga-zum) The final part of the sex act, which involves contraction of sexual organs and a sudden release of endorphins, leading to a feeling of…
Oriel A projecting bay window carried on corbels or brackets.
Oriental medicine (OR-ee-EN-tul MEH-dih-sin) A medical system that has been used for thousands of years to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease.
Orientation The alignment of a building along a given axis to face a specific geographical direction.
Orifice An opening with a closed perimeter and a regular form through which water flows.
ORIG Original
origin The reference location for a planar coordinate system, usually represented by the values 0,0. The place where a trip starts.
Origin of replication The nucleotide sequence at which DNA synthesis is initiated.
Original appearance The visual appearance of a structure or site at approximately the time of its completed initial construction.
Original Application "Original" is used in the patent statute and rules to refer to an application which is not a reissue application.
original bill A bill which is drafted by a committee. It is introduced by the committee or subcommittee chairman after the committee votes to report it, and it is…
original filing basis the basis set forth in the application as initially filed -- see filing basis
Original ground (surface) The surface of the earth as it exists in an unaltered state (i.e. prior to any earthwork). See existing ground.
Original issue discount A bond or other debt security that is issued at less than par but can be redeemed for full par value at maturity is an original issue discount security.
Original Medicare Original Medicare is fee-for-service coverage under which the government pays your health care providers directly for your Part A (Hospital Insurance)…
original order The arrangement of records established by the creator, preserved by NARA in order to preserve existing relationships, evidential significance, and the…
Original Principal Balance The total amount of principal owed on a mortgage before any payments are made.
original record A primary or first-generation record or one that is designated as the official record
originating agency the same as creating agency (q.v.).
Originating Agency Identifier (ORI) Number This number is assigned by the FBI and is your agency's identifier. The first two letters are your state abbreviation, the next three numbers are your…
originating connection The connection between the termination of a user-network interface and an operator service access point that is used for communication between the user…
originating department See office of origin.
originating endpoint In a wideband packet node, the point that receives channelized traffic, packetizes it, and sends it into the wideband packet network. [T1.509-1995]
originating line information (OLI) Information indicating a toll class of service for the call. [T1.667-1999]
originating line-side access The ability to dial the appropriate 7- or 10-digit test number from a subscriber line. [T1.207-2000]
originating point code (OPC) A part of the routing label in a signaling message that uniquely identifies the originating point of that signaling message in a signaling network. [T1.
originating trunk-side access The ability to dial the appropriate test line number with trunk access using the appropriate test equipment. [T1.207-2000]
originating user The user that initiates a particular information transfer transaction. Note: The originating user may be either the source user or the destination user.
Origination The process of preparing, submitting, and evaluating a loan application; generally includes a credit check, verification of employment, and a property…
Origination Fee An origination fee is an amount, usually calculated as a percentage of a mortgage loan or home equity loan, which a lender charges for processing your…
origination network The signaling network that initiates a non-circuit-related message containing intermediate signaling network indication (ISNI) information; this network…
originator The acronym for the agency that is the original source of the data. The source for nearly all map layers created by OCTO that are not part of the…
originator-to-recipient speed of service Synonym speed of service.
Ornate Impact USFK Joint TMD Warfighter Exercise.
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN.
Orographic Related to, or caused by, physical geography (such as mountains or sloping terrain).
Orographic Lifting Same as Upslope Flow; occurs when air is forced to rise and cool due to terrain features such as hills or mountains.
Orographic Precipitation Precipitation which is caused by hills or mountain ranges deflecting the moisture-laden air masses upward, causing them to cool and precipitate their…
Orographic Uplift Same as Orographic Lifting; occurs when air is forced to rise and cool due to terrain features such as hills or mountains.
Orographic Waves A wavelike airflow produced over and in the lee of a mountain barrier.
oropharyngeal cancer (or-oh-fuh-RIN-jee-ul KAN-ser) Cancer that forms in tissues of the oropharynx (the part of the throat at the back of the mouth, including the soft palate…
oropharynx (or-o-FAIR-inks) The part of the throat at the back of the mouth. It includes the soft palate, the base of the tongue, and the tonsils.
Orphan A child who has no parents because of death, disappearance, desertion or abandonment of the parents.
Orphan Anvil Slang for an anvil from a dissipated thunderstorm, below which no other clouds remain.
orphan gene A gene or DNA sequence whose function is not known.
Orphan Petition Form I-600.
orphan receptor A receptor for which a cellular function or ligand has yet to be identified.
Orphans French phrase. Common in European casinos. It's a bet on three specific numbers 6, 34 and 17 that are neighbours on the wheel, but far apart on the layout.
Orphelins French phrase. Common in European casinos. It's a bet on a specific group of numbers on a section of the roulette wheel that are neighbours on the wheel…
Orphelins (Orphans) most commonly found in European casinos. Orphan is when players bet on specific number of three, which are laid out close together on the wheel, but are…
ORTA Office of Research and Technology Applications.
ortet The plant from which a clone is obtained. Synonym: donor plant.
orthodox medicine (OR-thuh-DOX MEH-dih-sin) A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat…
orthogonal multiplex A method of combining two or more digital signals that have mutually independent pulses, thus avoiding intersymbol interference.
orthogonal sampling In digital video, a sampling where the luminance and the color-difference samples are generated from pixels arranged in common, continuous vertical and…
Orthographic analysis Orthographic analysis is used in checking for typos and, official variants (for example, German spelling).
orthologous Homologous genes/gene products that have evolved divergently between species; many rice genes have orthologues in other cereal genomes, because of the…
orthomode transducer A device forming part of an antenna feed and serving to combine or separate orthogonally polarized signals.
orthophotograph Aerial photographs that have been processed to correct for scale variations and image displacement resulting from relief or terrain variations and camera…
orthophotography The process of aerial photographs that have been rectified to produce an accurate image of the Earth by removing tilt and relief displacements which…
orthotopic (OR-thoh-TOP-ik) In medicine, refers to something that occurs in the normal or usual place in the body.
ORU Orbital Replacement Unit.
ORWG Operational Requirements Working Group.
OS Operating System
OS (operating system) the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer and their interaction…
OS principal A principal native to the operating system on which the J2EE platform is executing.
OSA Optical Society of America.
OSC Optical Signature Code.
OSCE Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe.
Oscillation A shift in position of various high and low pressure systems that in climate terms is usually defined as an index (i.e.
oscillator An electronic circuit designed to produce an ideally stable alternating voltage or current.
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense.
OSE Operational Support Equipment.
OSEIT Operations and Support Engineering Integration Tool. 215
OSF Open Systems Foundation.
OSF/MOTIF An industry-standard graphical user interface developed by the Open Software Foundation for the UNIX workstation environment.
OSH Occupational Safety and Health.
OSHA See Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSI Operator System Interface.
OSI--RM Abbreviation for Open Systems Interconnection--Reference Model.
OSI-774 A drug used to treat certain types of non-small cell lung cancer. It is also used together with gemcitabine to treat pancreatic cancer and is being…
OSI-7904L A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called thymidylate synthase inhibitors.
OSIA On Site Inspection Agency, Washington, DC.
OSIM Object Simulation (NMD BMC3 term).
OSIP Operational System Integration Plan.
OSIWG Operating Systems Interface Working Group.
OSJTF Open Systems Joint Task Force.
OSM Object Sighting Message.