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.
- The Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award for outstanding children's nonfiction literature, awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English.
- 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.