Nimbus
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Nimbus may refer to:
- Nimbus cloud, Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm
- Halo (optical phenomenon), light or mist around an object
- Halo (religious iconography), the disk or ring around the head of a sacred figure
- Nimbus II, a French thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1910
- Nimbus V, a British thoroughbread racehorse foaled in 1946, and winner of the 1949 Epsom Derby.
[edit] In science & engineering
- Bristol Siddeley Nimbus a turboshaft engine for helicopters
- The Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 series of sailplanes
- Nimbus (motorcycle)
- Nimbus program, spacecraft used for weather research
- Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
- Nimbus (computer), a computer manufactured by Research Machines, based on the Intel 80186 CPU, and with some level of IBM PC compatibility
- Nimbus (unicycle)
- Nimbus (pleasure sailing boat 33 ft), Danish build by Bjørn Olsen 1968
[edit] In culture
- Nimbus Records, a compact disc company that featured both modern classical recordings and a section called Prima Voce, which was devoted to historical recordings of classical music.
- Nimbus Brewing Company, a microbrewery in Tucson, Arizona
- Nimbus Broadcasting Corporation, in India
- Nimbus, a horrorcore/gothic-rap artist from North London, England.
[edit] In fiction
- The Flying Nimbus cloud from the Dragon Ball Series.
- Nimbus (Futurama) The name of the spaceship commanded by Zapp Brannigan on the futuristic animated series Futurama
- Nimbus, fictional broomsticks from the Harry Potter series
- Member of The Omega Men, an extraterrestrial paramilitary rebel group from DC Comics