Orbis 2445684 207592176 2008-04-23T12:46:07Z RussBot 279219 Robot-assisted fix [[WP:DPL|links to disambiguation page]] British '''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, Rhineland-Palatinate|Orbis]], a municipality of the [[Kirchheimbolanden (administrative unit)|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 [[United Kingdom|British]] publisher of [[partwork]]s and [[book]]s. * ''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. ==See also== * [[Orb]] {{disambig}} [[es:Orbis (desambiguación)]] [[nl:Orbis]]