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See also:OMNIBUS (See also:Lat. " for all ") , a large closed public See also:conveyance with seats for passengers inside and out (see See also:CARRIAGE) . The name, colloquially shortened to " bus," was, in the See also:form voiture See also:omnibus, first used for such conveyances in See also:Paris in 1828, and was taken by Shillibeer for the vehicle he ran on the See also:Paddington road in 1829 . The word is also applied to a See also:box at the See also:opera which is shared by several subscribers, to a See also:bill or See also:act of See also:parliament dealing with a variety of subjects, and in See also:electrical See also:engineering to the See also: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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