Nimbus

Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", may refer to:

General meanings

• Nimbus cloud, a cloud that produces precipitation
• Halo (optical phenomenon), light or mist from an object
• Halo (religious iconography), the disk or ring around the head of a sacred figure

Specific meanings

• Nimbus (game), A video game
• Nimbus satellites used for meteorological research
• Nimbus II, a French thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1910
• Nimbus V, a British thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1946, and winner of the 1949 Epsom Derby
• Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian publishing company based in Halifax, NS
• Nimbus Records, a British record company specialising in classical music recordings
• Nimbus (literary magazine), A magazine of Literature, Arts & Ideas. London (1951–58).
• Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival

• Nimbus III a pressure relieving mattress commonly used in hospitals. Used in prevention of ulcers

Vehicles

• Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle, manufactured in two periods 1919-1924 and 1932-1954
• Albion Nimbus
• Mitsubishi Nimbus one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot
• Schempp-Hirth Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes.
• Nimbus (Unicycles), Unicycle Brand

Computing

• Nimbus, a popular cross platform GUI skin of Java applications
• Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
• Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica
• RM Nimbus, a computer produced by RM plc
• Nimbus (cloud computing), an Infrastructure as a service software toolkit

Fiction

• Nimbus, the cloud ridden by Goku in the Dragon Ball series
• Nimbus, a member of the Omega Men extraterrestrial superheroes team, from DC Comics
• Nimbus, several types of broomsticks in Harry Potter
• Nimbus, the spaceship commanded by Zapp Brannigan in the animated series Futurama
• Nimbus, a type of airburst cruise missile in Ace Combat 6
• Nimbus III, a planet featured in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Nimbus Land, an area of the map in "Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars"
• "Nimbus Littling", a 2-inch tall Littling tween who can create clouds by exhaling.
• Nimbus 2000, Harry Potter

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