An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them. It can also...

Orphan Black is a Canadian science-fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett and starring Tatiana...

An orphan drug is a pharmaceutical agent that is developed to treat certain rare medical conditions. An orphan drug would not be profitable to produce...

Orphan is a 2009 psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson from a story by Alex Mace. The film stars...

Orphan: First Kill is a 2022 American psychological horror film directed by William Brent Bell, written by David Coggeshall, based on a story by David...

up orphan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An orphan is one who has lost both parents. Orphan(s) or The Orphan(s) may also refer to: The Orphan (film)...

The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located...

The Orphan Queen is an epic fantasy and romance from Incarnate series author Jodi Meadows. The Huffington Post ranked it as one of the top YA books of...

Orphan Black: Echoes is a Canadian science fiction thriller television series created by Anna Fishko based on Orphan Black created by John Fawcett and...

In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short...

Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from...

An AIDS orphan is a child who became an orphan because one or both parents died from AIDS. In statistics from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...

v t e An orphan source is a self-contained radioactive source that is no longer under regulatory control. The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

An orphan work is a copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable. Sometimes the names of the originators...

A social orphan is a child with no adults looking after them, even though one or more parents are still alive. Usually the parents are alcoholics, drug...

Orphan X is a 2016 thriller novel written by Gregg Hurwitz. It is the first in an eight-book series of the same name from publisher Minotaur Books. For...

a ligand for an orphan receptor is later discovered, the receptor is referred to as an "adopted orphan". Conversely, the term orphan ligand refers to...

An orphan film is a motion picture work that has been abandoned by its owner or copyright holder. The term can also sometimes refer to any film that has...

Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction television series that premiered on March 30, 2013, in Canada on Space. The series was created by Graeme Manson...

The Orphan of Zhao is a Chinese play from the Yuan era, attributed to the 13th-century dramatist Ji Junxiang (紀君祥). The play has as its full name The Great...

financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan diseases. Most rare diseases are genetic in origin and...

Orphan structure or Orphan SPV or orphaning are terms used in structured finance closely associated with creating SPVs ("Special Purpose Vehicles") for...

An orphan process is a computer process whose parent process has finished or terminated, though it remains running itself. In a Unix-like operating system...

Orphan-Maker (Peter) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in X-Factor...

"Time's Orphan" is the 148th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 24th episode of the sixth...

"Orphan 55" is the third episode of the twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 12...

The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial...

Orphan genes, ORFans, or taxonomically restricted genes (TRGs) are genes that lack a detectable homologue outside of a given species or lineage. Most genes...

Victoria J. Orphan is a geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology who studies the interactions between marine microorganisms and their environment...

The Little Orphan is a 1949 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 40th Tom and Jerry cartoon, released in theaters on April 30, 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn...