Globus

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Globus is Latin for sphere or globe. It may also refer to:

Business

• Globus Medical, a medical device company in Audubon, PA
• Glo-Bus, a global business strategy simulation game
• Globus (clothing retailer), an Indian clothing retail store
• Globus (company), a Swiss department store chain
• Globus (hypermarket), a hypermarket chain in Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia
• Globus (publisher), a Spanish magazine publisher
• Globus (weekly), a newspaper published in Croatia
• Globus Alliance, an engineering association for grid computing infrastructure
  • Globus Toolkit, software that implements specifications proposed by the Globus Alliance
• Globus service, research data management service.
• Globus Capital Holdings, a global private equity firm

Medicine

• globus pallidus, a sub-cortical structure in the brain
• globus pharyngis (also globus sensation or globus hystericus), a feeling of a lump at the back of the throat

Education

• Globus Competence Centre for Globalisation and Sustainable Development, Tias Nimbus Business School, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

People

• Globus, nickname of Eugene Kuziw, Ukrainian American
• Globus, nickname of Odilo Globocnik, a World War II Nazi and SS leader
• Solomon Globus (born 1856), Lithuanian chess master
• Stephen Globus, New York City venture capitalist
• Yoram Globus (born 1941), Israeli film producer

Other

• Globus (map), a globe, a three-dimensional scale model of Earth
• Globus (music), the commercial name of a mix of producers, musicians, and vocalists from the movie trailer music production company Immediate Music
• Globus cruciger, an orb topped with a cross, a Christian symbol
• Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument
• a radar system in Vardø, Globus II was built by Raytheon

See also

• Globe (disambiguation)
• Gobus (disambiguation)