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 an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one’s mind.”
    —Barbara Pym (1913–1980)

    “Holofernes. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd as it were, too peregrinate as I may call it.
    Sir Nathaniel. A most singular and choice epithet.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)