Globus

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

Business

  • Glo-Bus, a global business strategy simulation game
  • Globus (clothing), 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

Transportation

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

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

See also

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