Nimbus
Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", may refer to:
General meanings
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
Computing
- Nimbus, a web platform for photographers created by Pictage and ShootQ
- 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
- Nimbus Station, a world in the MMO game LEGO Universe