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Orbis may refer to:

Historical

Companies

Publishing

  • Orbis Books, a publishing imprint of the Maryknoll order
  • Orbis Publishing, a British publisher of partworks and books
  • Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding children's nonfiction literature, awarded by the National Council of Teachers of English

Periodicals

  • Orbis (journal), a quarterly journal of international affairs published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute
  • Vanderbilt Orbis, a progressive student newspaper at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee

Fiction

Other uses

  • Orbis International, the "Flying Eye Hospital," a charitable organization devoted to treating and preventing blindness
  • The Orbis School, near Pune, India
  • Orbis, codename for PlayStation 4, video game console developed by Sony
  • Orbis, the Latin term for orbit (the eye socket)

See also