Omnibus
Encyclopedia
Omnibus may refer to:
Law
Media and entertainment
Publishing
Other uses
Law
- Omnibus billOmnibus billAn omnibus bill is a proposed law that covers a number of diverse or unrelated topics. Omnibus is derived from Latin and means "for everything"...
, a single legislative document containing many laws or amendments - Omnibus spending billOmnibus spending billAn omnibus spending bill is a bill that sets the budget of many departments of the United States government at once. It is one possible outcome of the budget process in the U.S....
, a single legislative document that sets the budget of many government departments - Omnibus clauseOmnibus clauseAn omnibus clause is a clause that provides or includes all residuary not specifically mentioned.A very common omnibus clause deals with automobile liability insurance...
- Omnibus hearingOmnibus hearingAn omnibus hearing is a pretrial hearing. It is usually soon after a defendant's arraignment. The main purpose of the hearing is to determine the admissibility of evidence, including testimony and evidence seized at the time of arrest....
- Omnibus lawOmnibus lawOmnibus law was a law adopted in 2002 that regulated the autonomous status of Vojvodina within Serbia. The law affirmed the jurisdiction of provincial administration over culture, education, language policy, media, health, sanitary survey, health assurance, pension and invalid assurance, social...
, a Serbian law regarding Vojvodina - Omnibus claim, a patent claim which does not explicitly state any technical features of the product or process
Media and entertainment
- Omnibus (UK TV series), an arts-based documentary programme
- Omnibus (U.S. TV series), an educational program
- Omnibus (talk show)Omnibus (talk show)Omnibus is an Italian breakfast television news and talk show, broadcast on La7 since 2002....
, an Italian series - Anthology: Omnibus (book), a one-volume book edition of previously published books
- Omnibus (broadcast)Omnibus (broadcast)An omnibus is a compilation of daily television or radio episodes that is re-broadcast during the following weekend. The term has been most frequently used in the United Kingdom, though it has also been used in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa...
, a compilation of TV episodes - Omnibus (film)Omnibus (film)Omnibus is a 1992 short comedy film directed by Sam Karmann. It won an Academy Award in 1993 for Best Short Subject and it won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Daniel Rialet - The Man* Jacques Martial - The Conductor...
- Omnibus (album)Omnibus (album)-Track listing:Tracks 1-12 on disc one were originally released on the album I Guess I Was Hoping For Something More.Tracks 1-6 on disc two were originally released on the EP Sea Songs For Landlocked Sailors.-Disc One:#"Keeping Me Awake" - 5:42...
, by Tarkio - Omnibus PromotionOmnibus Promotionis a film and anime sound effects production and distribution company established on 1963-08-01 and located in the San'ei-chō district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan...
, a sound effects company - Omnibus Wind Ensemble, a musical group
- "Omnibus", a song by XTC on the album NonsuchNonsuch (album)Nonsuch is the eleventh studio album by XTC, released on 27 April 1992. In a 1992 MTV interview, Andy Partridge said that he had selected the name of the album after encountering a drawing of Nonsuch Palace and, thinking that the archaic word "Nonsuch" meant "does not exist" rather than, as he...
- Omnibus, a song by Lautsprecher and Katie Scate
- Omnibus, a comic book character, associated with The LeaderLeader (comics)The Leader is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales to Astonish #62, and was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. In 2009, The Leader was ranked as IGN's 63rd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.Actor Tim Blake...
- Homnibus, a The Smurfs character
Publishing
- Omnibus Press, a book publisher
- AnthologyAnthologyAn anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
, a collection of literary works - Three-volume novelThree-volume novelThe three-volume novel was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century. It was a significant stage in the development of the modern Western novel as a form of popular literature.The format does not correspond closely to what would now be considered a trilogy of...
Other uses
- Omnibus (survey)Omnibus (survey)An omnibus survey is a method of quantitative marketing research where data on a wide variety of subjects is collected during the same interview...
, a research method used in interviewing - Omnibus progressionOmnibus progressionThe omnibus progression in music is a chord progression characterized by chromatic lines moving in opposite directions. The progression has its origins in the various Baroque harmonizations of the descending chromatic fourth in the bass ostinato pattern of passacaglia, known as the "lament bass"...
, a type of harmonic sequence - Omnibus testOmnibus testOmnibus tests are a kind of statistical test. They test whether the explained variance in a set of data is significantly greater than the unexplained variance, overall. One example is the F-test in the analysis of variance. There can be legitimate significant effects within a model even if the...
, a type of statistical test - Omnibus issueOmnibus issueIn philately, an omnibus issue is an issue of stamps by several countries with a common subject and which may share a uniform design. Omnibus issues have often been made by countries under common political control or groups of colonies due to the close co-operation required to produce the issue...
, in philately - BusBusA bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
, a road vehicle designed to carry passengers - WagonetteWagonetteA wagonette or an omnibus is a horse-drawn wagon for passenger transport. Two wooden benches along the right and left side of the wagon platform can hold several sitting people facing each other. The driver sits on a separate, front-facing bench.The term carried over to motorized vehicles...
, a horse-drawn wagon for passenger transport - A system bus on some varieties of PDP-8PDP-8The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1960s. DEC introduced it on 22 March 1965, and sold more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to that date. It was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP series of...
computers
See also
- Omnia (disambiguation)
- Omni (disambiguation)
- The man on the Clapham omnibusThe man on the Clapham omnibusThe man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably educated and intelligent but non-specialist person — a reasonable person, a hypothetical person against whom a defendant's conduct might be judged in an English law civil action for negligence. This is the standard of care comparable to that which...