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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
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
Media and entertainment
- Anthology film, a feature film consisting of several different short films
- Omnibus, Japanese term for Various Artists in recorded music
- 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 (album), by Tarkio
- "Omnibus", a song by XTC on the album Nonsuch
- "Omnibus", a song by The Move originally appearing as a single B-side to "Wild Tiger Woman"
- Omnibus Promotion, a sound effects company
- Omnibus, a Marvel Comics character, associated with the Leader
- Homnibus, a The Smurfs character
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
See also
- Omnia (disambiguation)
- Omni (disambiguation)
- The man on the Clapham omnibus