Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud. Nimbus also may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Halo (religious iconography), also known as Nimbus, a ring of light surrounding a person in a piece of art
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Nimbus (literary magazine), published in London (1951–58)
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Nimbus 2000, a flying broom from the Harry Potter series
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Nimbus, a spaceship captained by Zapp Brannigan in the animated series Futurama
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Nimbus III, a planet in the movie
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Nimbus, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
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Nimbus, a type of guided missile in the video game
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Nimbus, a flying cloud from the Dragon Ball series
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Mr. Nimbus, Rick's arch-nemesis in the series Rick and Morty
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"Nimbus", a song by 808 State featured on their 1992 single "Timebomb" and also featured on their 1993 album Gorgeous
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Nimbus, a 2010 video game for the PC, by Noumenon Games, which combines gliding with puzzle solving.
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Nimbus, a character in Destiny 2, video game developed by Bungie.
Business
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Nimbus Communications Limited, an Indian media and entertainment company and sports broadcaster
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Nimbus Data, a flash memory-based storage systems company in San Francisco, California
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Nimbus Film, Denmark 's third largest film production company
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Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian company
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Nimbus Records, a British company specializing in classical music recordings
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Nimbus School of Recording Arts, a private educational institute in Vancouver, Canada
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Nimsoft, originally Nimbus Software, a software vendor established in Oslo, Norway, later acquired by CA Inc.
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Nimbus Rooftop Bar, a bar in Bendigo, Australia
Places
Science and computing
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Halo (optical phenomenon), also known as nimbus, produced by ice crystals in the sky
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Nimbus program, satellites for meteorological research
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RM Nimbus, a 1980s British microcomputer
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Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
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Nimbus (cloud computing), an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service
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Nimbus Mono, a monospaced typeface created by URW++
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Nimbus Note, a cross-platform note-taking app created by Nimbus Web Inc
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Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++
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Nimbus Roman, a serif typeface created by URW++
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NB.1.8.1, a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
Transportation
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Nimbus 42, a Swedish sailboat design
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Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle manufactured in 1919–1928 and 1934–1960
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Mitsubishi Nimbus, one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot automobile
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Schempp-Hirth HS-3 Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes
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Mitchell Nimbus, a series of American gliders
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Short Nimbus, a British two-seat glider trainer designed in 1947
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Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus, a German glider of the 1960s
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Bristol Siddeley Nimbus, later Rolls-Royce Nimbus, a British turboshaft engine used in helicopters
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ADC Nimbus, a British inline aero engine that first ran in 1926
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Albion Nimbus, an ultra-lightweight midibus or coach chassis
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Caetano Nimbus, a bus body produced in England between 1999 and 2007
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Wright Nimbus, a minibus body
Other uses
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Nimbus (horse), multiple horses with this name
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Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival
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Nimbus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Aphodiidae
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Cumulonimbus cloud