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Omnibus is a Latin word meaning "for all (people)" and has several meanings in standard English:
- bus, a vehicle for transporting large numbers of people
- Omnibus, a law which covers many different subjects, or has had many unrelated additions tacked onto it.
- omnibus (media), a book, video, or movie collecting two or more previous works by the same author, director, theme, or other unifying criterion
- omnibus (broadcast), a compilation of daily episodes for some programs
- omnibus (survey), a survey in which data on a wide variety of subjects is collected during the same interview
- Omnibus (TV series), a broadcast program
- Omnibus (album), an album by Decemberists singer/songwriter Colin Meloy's first band Tarkio.
- Omnibus progression, a sequence of chords which effectively divides an octave into 4 equal parts.
- Omnibus Press, a British publisher of books
- Omnibus, a friend of Papa Smurf in the comic and cartoon The Smurfs
- Omnibus, a vehicle of mass transit capable of visiting any physical or conceptual location - see The Magic School Bus.
- The I/O bus used on certain PDP-8 computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Note
Omnibus had no plural in Latin, because it was already a plural word. In English, its plural is "omnibuses", not "omnibi", which is a solecism.
See also
- Omnibus spending bill, a bill that sets the budget of many departments of the United States government at once.
- Omnibus hearing, a pretrial hearing.
- Omnibus Wind Ensemble
- The man on the Clapham omnibus
- Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
"Omnibus"