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n. A bus which is larger than or superior to ordinary buses
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Superbus is an Israeli bus company, which provides intercity and urban service in Beit Shemesh, Afula, Tiberias and Yokneam.
The Superbus is a prototype high speed electric coach-like limo car that is capable of carrying 23 passengers at speeds of up to on specially designed segregated highway lanes. The Superbus project, led by Dutch astronaut professor Wubbo Ockels of the Delft University of Technology until his death in 2014 envisages a comfortable, demand-dependent door-to-door transportation rivaling the car and the train. The project, which encompass infrastructure, logistics, safety, reliability and economic viability, in addition to the design of the vehicle itself, has received funding of €7 million, largely provided by the Dutch State.
Superbus (Latin for superb, proud, arrogant) may refer to:
- Superbus (band), a French pop-rock band formed in 1999
- 18596 Superbus, a Main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1998
- Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (before 535 BC – 496 BC), the seventh King of Rome, reigning from 535 until the Roman revolt in 509 BC
- Mount Superbus, the Queensland's third highest peak at 1375 metres (4500 feet)
- Several bus industry companies, a play on super bus:
- Superbus (company), an Israeli bus company
- Superbus.com, an Estonian bus company
- Superbus (transport), a project concerning the creation of high speed buses
Superbus is a five-piece French pop/ rock band formed in 1999 with Jenn Ayache on lead vocals. The band's name is from the Latin word superbus, meaning proud, which Ayache stumbled upon while browsing through a Latin dictionary. The band has released five studio albums to date and a compilation album.
Usage examples of "superbus".
There is no question that the Brutus who won such glory through the expulsion of Superbus would have inflicted the gravest injury on the State had he wrested the sovereignty from any of the former kings, through desire of a liberty for which the people were not ripe.
Tarquinius Superbus, though now enfeebled by age, spurred his horse against Postumius, who in the front of the line was addressing and forming his men.
Servius Tullius was foully murdered by his son-in-law Tarquinius Superbus, who succeeded him on the throne.
Such was the life of the Romans under the kings during the much-praised epoch of the state which extends to the expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus in the 243d year, during which all those victories, which were bought with so much blood and such disasters, hardly pushed Rome’s dominion twenty miles from the city.