Omnibus

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Omnibus is the Latin for "for all", and refers to a passenger-carrying vehicle, originally an enclosed horse-drawn one. The term may refer to:

Transport

• Bus, a road vehicle designed to carry passengers
• Horsebus, a large, enclosed and sprung horse-drawn vehicle used for passenger transport
• Wagonette, a horse-drawn open wagon for passenger transport
• Maruti Omni, an 8-passenger microvan sold in South Asia

Law

• Omnibus bill, a single legislative document containing many laws or amendments
• Omnibus spending bill, a single legislative document that sets the budget of many government departments
• Omnibus clause
• Omnibus hearing
• Omnibus law, a Serbian law regarding Vojvodina
• Omnibus claim, a patent claim which does not explicitly state any technical features of the product or process

Publishing

• Omnibus edition, a collection of literary works
• Omnibus Press, a book publisher

Other uses

• Omnibus (survey), a research method used in interviewing
• Omnibus progression, a type of harmonic sequence
• Omnibus test, a type of statistical test
• Omnibus issue, in philately
• Omnibus bar, usually contracted to Busbar
• A system bus on some varieties of PDP-8 computers
• Bus (computing)

Entertainment

• Anthology film, a feature film consisting of several different short films
• Omnibus (UK TV series), an arts-based documentary programme
• Omnibus (U.S. TV series), an educational program
• Omnibus (talk show), an Italian series
• Omnibus (broadcast), a compilation of TV episodes
• Omnibus (film)
• Omnibus Promotion, a sound effects company
• Omnibus, a Marvel Comics character, associated with the Leader (comics)
• Homnibus, a The Smurfs character
• OmniBus, a 2016 video game

Music

• Omnibus, Japanese and Korean term for Various Artists in recorded music

See also

• Omnia (disambiguation)
• Omni (disambiguation)
• The man on the Clapham omnibus