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Nimbus , from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the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:
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
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.
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.
Nimbus Rooftop Bar , a bar in Bendigo, Australia
Places
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
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++
Transportation
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
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