Origin - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Dalsa Origin, a digital movie camera
  • Original equipment manufacturer (OEM), manufactures products for another company's brand name
  • Original soundtrack, recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game
  • The source of a river system
  • The geographical pole, used in cartography
  • Time
    • A general point in time
    • Epochal date or event, see epoch (reference date)
    • Epochal moment, in astronomy, a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body
  • Mathematics
    • The point of intersection of the axes in the Cartesian coordinate system
    • The pole in the polar coordinate system
    • Origin (mathematics), a fixed point of reference for the geometry of the surrounding space

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