Odd

Odd is an adjective denoting the quality of being unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric.

Odd may also refer to:

In mathematics, the term is used in several senses related to even:

    • even and odd numbers, an integer is odd if dividing by two does not yield an integer
    • even and odd functions, a function is odd if f(x) = –f(–x) for all x
    • even and odd permutations, a permutation of a finite set is odd if it is composed of an odd number of transpositions

In other contexts

  • Odd (name), a male name common in Norway
  • Odd, West Virginia, USA
  • Odd Grenland, a Norwegian football team
  • Odd Della Robbia, a character in Code Lyoko

ODD may refer to:

  • Optical Disc Drive
  • ODD (fanzine), a Hugo-nominated science fiction fanzine
  • ODD (Text Encoding Initiative), "One Document Does it all", an abstracted literate-programming format for describing XML schemas
  • ODD, a play by Hal Corley about a teenager with oppositional defiant disorder
  • Operational Due Diligence
  • Oppositional defiant disorder, a mental disorder characterized by defiant behavior

Famous quotes containing the word odd:

    “It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Isn’t it odd that networks accept billions of dollars from advertisers to teach people to use products and then proclaim that children aren’t learning about violence from their steady diet of it on television!”
    —Toni Liebman (20th century)