Nimbus

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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud.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:

• Halo (religious iconography), also known as Nimbus, a ring of light surrounding a person in a piece of art
• Nimbus (literary magazine), published in London (1951–58)
• Nimbus 2000, a flying broom from the Harry Potter series
• Nimbus, a spaceship captained by Zapp Brannigan in the animated series Futurama
• Nimbus III, a planet in the movie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Nimbus, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
• Nimbus, a type of guided missile in the video game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
• Nimbus, a flying cloud from the Dragon Ball series
• Mr. Nimbus, Rick's arch-nemesis in the series Rick and Morty
• "Nimbus", a song by 808 State featured on their 1992 single "Timebomb" and also featured on their 1993 album Gorgeous
• Nimbus, a 2010 video game for the PC, by Noumenon Games, which combines gliding with puzzle solving.
• Nimbus, a character in Destiny 2, video game developed by Bungie.

• Nimbus Communications Limited, an Indian media and entertainment company and sports broadcaster
• Nimbus Data, a flash memory-based storage systems company in San Francisco, California
• Nimbus Film, Denmark 's third largest film production company
• Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian company
• Nimbus Records, a British company specializing in classical music recordings
• Nimbus School of Recording Arts, a private educational institute in Vancouver, Canada
• Nimsoft, originally Nimbus Software, a software vendor established in Oslo, Norway, later acquired by CA Inc.
• Nimbus Rooftop Bar, a bar in Bendigo, Australia

• Nimbus Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
• Nimbus Dam, on the American River near Folsom, California

• Halo (optical phenomenon), also known as nimbus, produced by ice crystals in the sky
• Nimbus program, satellites for meteorological research
• RM Nimbus, a 1980s British microcomputer
• Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
• Nimbus (cloud computing), an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service
• Nimbus Mono, a monospaced typeface created by URW++
• Nimbus Note, a cross-platform note-taking app created by Nimbus Web Inc
• Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++
• Nimbus Roman, a serif typeface created by URW++

• Nimbus 42, a Swedish sailboat design
• Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle manufactured in 1919–1928 and 1934–1960
• Mitsubishi Nimbus, one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot automobile
• Schempp-Hirth HS-3 Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes
• Mitchell Nimbus, a series of American gliders
• Short Nimbus, a British two-seat glider trainer designed in 1947
• Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus, a German glider of the 1960s
• Bristol Siddeley Nimbus, later Rolls-Royce Nimbus, a British turboshaft engine used in helicopters
• ADC Nimbus, a British inline aero engine that first ran in 1926
• Albion Nimbus, an ultra-lightweight midibus or coach chassis
• Caetano Nimbus, a bus body produced in England between 1999 and 2007
• Wright Nimbus, a minibus body

• Nimbus (horse), multiple horses with this name
• Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival
• Nimbus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Aphodiidae
• Cumulonimbus cloud

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