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OMNIBUS (Lat. " for all ")

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 104 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OMNIBUS (Lat. " for all ") , a large closed public
conveyance
  with seats for passengers inside and out (see
CARRIAGE
 ). The name, colloquially shortened to " bus," was, in the form voiture
omnibus
 , first used for such conveyances in Paris in 1828, and was taken by Shillibeer for the vehicle he ran on the
Paddington
  road in 1829. The word is also applied to a box at the
opera
  which is shared by several subscribers, to a
bill
  or act of
parliament
  dealing with a variety of subjects, and in
electrical
 
engineering
  to the bar to which the terminals of the generators are attached and from which the current is taken off by the wires supplying the various consumers.


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