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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