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Opus

• In music, pieces of some composers' music are given opus numbers which generally run either in order of composition or in order of publication.
• In architecture, it specifically describes a technique or a method or a style of connecting building elements, following the studies on Roman architecture. Roman building styles are commonly classified as:
• 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
• Opus Dei (God's work) is a conservative Roman Catholic organization founded in 1928.
• Opus the penguin is a character in various comic strips by Berkeley Breathed.
• Opus is a comic strip by Berkeley Breathed.
• Directory Opus is a file manager originally for the Amiga computer and now for Windows.
• A "magnum opus" (or "opus magnum") is a great work or, more commonly, the greatest work of a person. Magnum is Latin for great.

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