Opus

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Opus may refer to:

in architecture, a technique or a method or a style of connecting building elements, following the studies on Roman architecture:

• Opus incertum
• Opus testaceum (also called Opus latericium)
• Opus caementicium
• Opus reticulatum (also called Opus certum)
• Opus siliceum
• Opus quadratum
• Opus vittatum
• Opus mixtum
• Opus spicatum
• Opus alexandrinum

in fine art:

• Magnum opus (or Opus magnum), the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer.

in music:

• Opus numbers, numbered pieces of music by composers which generally run in order of publication.
• Opus (band), an Austrian pop-rock group
• Opus III, an English techno group
• Opus (record label), a Slovakian record label
• Opus (album), an album by Mr. Sam
  • Opus Secundo, the second album from the Opus series by Mr. Sam

in publishing

• Opus (comic strip), a comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
  • Opus the Penguin, title character of the strip
• Opus (magazine), a student newspaper published at the University of Newcastle, Australia by the Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA)

in computers and technology:

• OPUS Online Portal for Used Schoolbooks, a forum set up to trade schoolbooks
• OPUS card, a rechargeable contactless stored value smart card used in the public transit systems of the Canadian province of Quebec
• Opus (content management system), a web content management system
• Opus (microkernel), an object-oriented microkernel
• Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system

in other uses:

• Opus, Greece, an ancient Greek city of Eastern Locris, on the coast of mainland Greece across from Euboea
• Opus Dei ("God's work"), a Roman Catholic organization founded in 1928
• Opus Group Berhad, the corporate holding company for several companies operating under the Opus brand name in several countries
• Opus College of Business, the business school within the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

[edit] See also

• Opus One

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