Lotus
Encyclopedia
Botany
- Lotus (plant)Lotus (plant)Lotus identifies various plant taxa:* Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers** Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus** Nelumbo lutea, the American or Yellow lotus...
, various botanical taxa - Lotus (genus)Lotus (genus)Lotus is a genus that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches and contains many dozens of species distributed world-wide. Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 are accepted. Lotus is a genus of legume and its members are adapted to a wide range of habitats, from...
- Lotus FlowerNelumbo nuciferaNelumbo nucifera, known by a number of names including Indian Lotus, Sacred Lotus, Bean of India, or simply Lotus, is a plant in the monogeneric family Nelumbonaceae...
, Nelumbo nucifera
Motor cars
- Lotus CarsLotus CarsLotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics...
, a British motor vehicle manufacturer- Team LotusTeam LotusTeam Lotus was the motorsport sister company of English sports car manufacturer Lotus Cars. The team ran cars in many motorsport series including Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Ford, Formula Junior, IndyCar and sports car racing...
, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994 - Pacific Team LotusPacific RacingPacific Racing was a motor racing team from the United Kingdom...
, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995. - Lotus Renault GPRenault F1Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking...
, a British Formula One team formerly known as Renault F1 - Lotus ARTART Grand PrixLotus ART is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. It was founded as ART Grand Prix in 1991.-Creation:...
, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars - KV Racing Technology - Lotus, the Lotus Cars-sponsored current incarnation of the KV Racing Technology IndyCar team
- Lotus (computer games)Lotus (computer games)The Lotus series consists of three racing computer games based around the Lotus brand, released between 1990 and 1992 on various formats.. Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge were developed by Magnetic Fields and published by Gremlin...
, a videogame series based on Lotus cars
- Team Lotus
- Team Lotus (current), a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing
Music
- Lotus (guitar)Lotus (guitar)Lotus was a brand name of guitars usedfrom the late 1970s until the late 1990s. Lotus guitars were usually copies of other brand name guitars, such as the Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Stratocaster...
, an instrument manufacturer - Lotus (American band), a 2000s instrumental rock band
- Lotus (Hong Kong band), a 1960s pop band
- Lotus (Elisa album)Lotus (Elisa album)Lotus is the fourth studio album by Elisa, released in 2003 . Initially idealized as a live album , Lotus became a mix between studio album , a greatest hits album and a cover album...
(2003), by Elisa - Lotus (Santana album) (1974), by Santana
- Lotus (Arashi song)Lotus (Arashi song)"Lotus" is a song recorded by Japanese boy band Arashi. It was released on February 23, 2011 by their record label J Storm. "Lotus" is currently being used as the theme song to the drama Bartender starring Arashi member Masaki Aiba. The single debuted at No. 1 on the Oricon weekly charts.-Track list:...
, by Arashi - Lotus, a song from Cage The Elephant's debut albumCage the Elephant (album)- Cage the Elephant :* Matt Shultz – vocals* Brad Shultz – guitar* Jared Champion – drums, percussion* Daniel Tichenor – bass, vocals* Lincoln Parish – lead guitar- Technical personnel :* Jay Joyce – producer* Jason Hall – engineer...
- Lotus (Dir En Grey song)Lotus (Dir en grey song)"Lotus" is the 26th single by Japanese band Dir En Grey, released on January 26, 2011 in Japan in a regular and limited edition, the limited copy featuring a bonus DVD....
, by Dir En Grey - Lotus, a song by Minus the Bear on Planet of IcePlanet of IcePlanet of Ice is the third full-length album from Minus the Bear, released on August 21, 2007 by Suicide Squeeze Records. It was produced and recorded by the band's former keyboard player, Matt Bayles, in February and March of 2007...
- Lotus (song)Lotus (song)"Lotus" is a song by R.E.M., released as the second single from their eleventh studio album Up.The song's recurring line "I ate the lotus" appeared in an alternate form in a previous R.E.M...
, by R.E.M. - Flying LotusFlying LotusFlying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006...
, an electronic musician from Los Angeles - Lotus Flower Bomb, Wale (Ambition), (2011)
Religion
- Padma (attribute), a polyvalent religious symbol
- Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala (Eight Auspicious Symbols)
- Lotus TempleLotus TempleThe Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple due to its flowerlike shape, is a Bahá'í House of Worship and also a prominent attraction in Delhi. It was completed in 1986 and serves as the Mother Temple of the Indian subcontinent...
, Baha'i House of Worship in Delhi, India - Lotus positionLotus positionThe Lotus Position is a cross-legged sitting posture originating in meditative practices of ancient India, in which the feet are placed on the opposing thighs. It is an established posture, commonly used for meditation, in the Hindu Yoga and Buddhist contemplative traditions...
, a yoga position
Other
- Lotus (board game)Lotus (board game)Lotus is a board game for two to four players developed by Dominique Teller and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The object of the game is to move one's pieces off the board before the other players...
, a strategy game - Lotus FoodsLotus FoodsLotus Foods is an El Cerrito, California, company run by Ken Lee and Caryl Levine that works in importing heirloom and exotic rices produced by family farmers. The idea for the company came in 1993 when Lee and Levine took a marketing research trip to China...
, an organic and heirloom rice company - Lotus SoftwareLotus SoftwareLotus Software is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts...
, a personal computer software company, best known for Lotus Notes and the 1-2-3 spreadsheet application - Lotus, a European brand of toilet paper owned by Georgia-PacificGeorgia-PacificGeorgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. As of Fall 2010, the company employed more than 40,000 people at more...
- S.S.S. LotusS.s.s. LotusThe S.S.S. Lotus is a historic gaff rigged schooner located at Sodus Point in Wayne County, New York and is operated and maintained by Sea Scout Ship 303 of Webster, New York.-History of the Lotus:...
, a sailing vessel - L.o.t.u.s.L.o.t.u.s.L.O.T.U.S. is a Dutch acronym for Landelijke Opleiding Tot Uitbeelden Slachtoffers. Translated into English it basically means the Dutch national organisation for people who portray casualties.-History:...
, an organization of casualty simulators - Law of the unconscious statisticianLaw of the unconscious statisticianIn probability theory and statistics, the law of the unconscious statistician is a theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function g of a random variable X when one knows the probability distribution of X but one does not explicitly know the distribution of g.The form of the law can...
, a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function - Tesco LotusTesco Lotusthumb|right|200px|Tesco Lotus Hypermarket, Lat Phrao Branch]]Tesco Lotus is a hypermarket chain in Thailand, Cambodia and China . In Thailand, the stores are operated by Ek-Chai Distribution System Co., Ltd....
, a hypermarket chain in Thailand and China - The Blue LotusThe Blue LotusThe Blue Lotus , first published in 1936, is one of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Hergé featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is a sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, with Tintin continuing his struggle against a major gang of drug...
, a Tintin book by Hergé