Orbis

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Orbis, the Latin word for "circle", "ring", "sphere" or anything round or rotating, may also refer to:

  • Orbis Hotels, an international hotel and travel agency chain based in Poland
  • ORBIS International, the "Flying Eye Hospital," a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness
  • Orbis, a municipality of the Kirchheimbolanden district (Verbandsgemeinde) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • A fictional location in the MMORPG MapleStory.
  • Orbis Books, a publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order.
  • Orbis, an alternative history novel by Scott Mackay.
  • Vanderbilt Orbis, a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Orbis Pictus, a 1658 children's book by Czech educator Jan Ámos Komenský.
  • Orbis Publishing Ltd., a British publisher of partworks and books.
  • Orbis, an international affairs journal published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
  • Orbis, an international linguistics journal published by the International Centre of General Dialectology in Belgium.
  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, a short story by Argentian writer Jorge Luis Borges published in 1940.
  • The "Orbis Terrarum", a map of the world created by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 20 A.D.
  • Orbis Software A UK based software house which develops the product Orbis TaskCentre.
  • Orbis Technology A UK-based gambling back office provider.
  • Orbis World Globes A US-based design company producing photorealistic world globes featuring NASA satellite imagery.

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