Globus is Latin for ''
sphere
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globe
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe ...
''. It may also refer to:
Business
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Globus Medical
Globus Medical, Inc. is a publicly traded medical device company headquartered in Audubon, Pennsylvania. Globus is focused on the design, development, and commercialization of products that enable surgeons to promote healing in patients with mus ...
, a medical device company in Audubon, PA
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Globus (clothing retailer)
Globus Stores Private Limited is a retail clothing store chain, based in Mumbai, India. It is part of the Rajan Raheja Group. As of June 2021, the chain has more than 35 locations in 22 cities in India.(4 April 2012)Pune gets its third Globus s ...
, an Indian clothing retail store
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Globus (company)
Globus is a Swiss department store company, with 13 department stores in Switzerland. The group, which includes the Herren Globus chain of menswear stores and the Office World chain of office supplies stores, was previously owned by Switzerl ...
, a Swiss department store chain
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Globus (hypermarket)
Globus Hypermarket Holding (''Globus SB-Warenhaus Holding GmbH & Co. KG''), branded as Globus, is a German retail chain of hypermarkets, DIY stores and electronics stores.
History
In 1828, Franz Bruch (1801–1865) opened a grocery store u ...
, a hypermarket chain in Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia
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Globus Alliance
The Globus Alliance is an international association founded by the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. The Globus Alliance was ...
, an engineering association for grid computing infrastructure
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Globus Toolkit
The Globus Toolkit is an open-source toolkit for grid computing developed and provided by the Globus Alliance. On 25 May 2017 it was announced that the open source support for the project would be discontinued in January 201 due to a lack of f ...
, software that implements specifications proposed by the Globus Alliance
Transportation
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Tata Globus, a range of buses by Tata Motors
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Globus Airlines
Globus Airlines[s7.ru – Our companies](_blank)
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, a Russian airline
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Globus family of brands, a group of travel package companies
Media
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''Globus'' (weekly), a political magazine published in Croatia
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''Globus'' (Macedonian magazine)
Medicine
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Globus pallidus
The globus pallidus (GP), also known as paleostriatum or dorsal pallidum, is a subcortical structure of the brain. It consists of two adjacent segments, one external, known in rodents simply as the globus pallidus, and one internal, known in rod ...
, a sub-cortical structure in the brain
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Globus pharyngis
Globus pharyngis or globus sensation is the persistent but painless sensation of having a pill, food bolus, or some other sort of obstruction in the throat when there is none. Swallowing is typically performed normally, so it is not a true case o ...
(also ''globus sensation'' or ''globus hystericus''), a feeling of a lump at the back of the throat
People
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Amy Globus
Amy Globus is an American artist, designer, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and creative director of the brand design studio, Team.
Globus has exhibited her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum and the MIT List Visua ...
, American artist and entrepreneur
* Globus, nickname of
Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was an Austrian Nazi and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. He was an official of the Nazi Party and later a high-ranking leader of the SS. Globocnik had a leading role in Operation Re ...
, a World War II Nazi and SS leader
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Solomon Globus
Solomon M. Globus (born 1856 – died ?) was a Lithuanian chess master.
He took 6th at Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) 1909 (the 6th All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Akiba Rubinstein won), and took 13th at Vilna 1912 (the 7th RUS-ch, B-tournament, Karel H ...
(born 1856), Lithuanian chess master
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Stephen Globus, New York City venture capitalist
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Yoram Globus
Yoram Globus ( he, יורם גלובוס; born 7 September 1943) is an Israeli–American film producer, cinema owner, and distributor. He has been involved in over 300 full-length motion pictures and he is most known for his association with ...
(born 1941), Israeli film producer
Other uses
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Globe
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe ...
, a three-dimensional scale model of Earth
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GLOBUS
Globus is Latin for ''sphere'' or ''globe''. It may also refer to:
Business
* Globus Medical, a medical device company in Audubon, PA
* Globus (clothing retailer), an Indian clothing retail store
* Globus (company), a Swiss department store chai ...
, a radar system in Norway
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''Globus'' (music), the commercial name of a mix of producers, musicians, and vocalists from the movie trailer music production company Immediate Music
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Globus cruciger
The ''globus cruciger'' ( for, , Latin, cross-bearing orb), also known as "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been a Christian symbol of authority since the Middle Ages, used on coins, in iconography, and with a sceptre ...
, an orb topped with a cross, a Christian symbol
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Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument
Globus IMP instruments were spacecraft navigation instruments used in Soviet and Russian crewed spacecraft. The IMP acronym stems from the Russian expression ''Indicator of position in flight'', but the instrument is informally referred to as the ...
* Globus Institute for Globalisation and Sustainable Development at
Tilburg University
Tilburg University is a public university, public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.
Tilb ...
, the Netherlands
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Globe (disambiguation)
A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth or other astronomical body.
Globe may also refer to:
* The globe, an alternative name for Earth
* Any other spherical or roughly spherical object Places
* Ericsson Globe, previously known as Sto ...
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Gobus (disambiguation)
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