Nimbus

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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an anachronistic term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud. Nimbus also may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• 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
• Flying Nimbus, a magical cloud given to Goku by Master Roshi in the series Dragon Ball

Business

• 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.

Science and computing

• 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

Transportation

• Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle manufactured in 1919-1924 and 1932-1954
• Mitsubishi Nimbus, one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot automobile
• Schempp-Hirth 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

Other uses

• Nimbus Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
• Nimbus Dam, on the American River near Folsom, California
• Nimbus (FR), a French thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1910
• Nimbus (GB), a British thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1946, winner of the 1949 Epsom Derby
• Nimbus, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
• Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival