Halo

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Halo may refer to:

Halo (religious iconography), a glow or ring of light around a head or person in art

Acronyms

HALO jump, a High Altitude-Low Opening parachute jump
HALO Technology Holdings, a parent company of several long established technology sector companies
HALO Trust, an organization to remove land mines and other war debris
Helium and Lead Observatory, a supernova neutrino detector

Halo (optical phenomenon), an atmospheric light effect produced by ice crystals
Galactic halo, an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy which extends beyond the main, visible component
Heiligenschein an optical phenomenon giving a bright spot around a shadow, created when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics
Halo nucleus, of orbiting protons or neutrons
Halo orbit, a periodic, three-dimensional orbit
Halo- (disambiguation), a chemical prefix
Halo (mathematics), a concept in the theory of hyperreal numbers
Halo (medicine), a cervical brace
Halo sign, a finding on ultrasound that suggests the diagnosis of temporal arteritis
Project Halo, computer science "digital Aristotle"

Halo (G.I. Joe), a fictional member of the Phoenix Guard in G.I. Joe: America's Elite
Halo (comics), a DC Comics superheroine
Halo Jones, the heroine of the science fiction comic strip "The Ballad of Halo Jones" written by Alan Moore.

Halo (1996 film), a 1996 Indian film
Halo (2007 cancelled film), a never produced film adaptation of the Halo video game series
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012 film), a military science fiction action film set in the universe of the Halo franchise

Halo (series), a video game franchise by Bungie, 343 Industries, and Microsoft Game Studios
- Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series commonly referred to only as Halo
- Halo (megastructure) is the center of the game's canon and from which it is named
- Halo (board game), strategy games based on the Halo universe

"Halo" (Beyoncé song), 2008
"Halo" (Machine Head song), 2008
"Halo" (Red Flag song), 2008
"Halo" (Soil song), 2001
"Halo" (Texas song), 1997
"Halo", a song by Bethany Joy Galeotti on the album Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
"Halo", a song by Bloc Party on the album Intimacy
"Halo", a song by Cage the Elephant on the album Melophobia
"Halo", a song by The Cure on the album Join the Dots
"Halo", a song by Depeche Mode on the album Violator
"Halo", a song by Endless Shame on the album Generation Blind
"Halo", a song by Foo Fighters on the album One by One
"Halo", a song by Linkin Park from the 2010 Linkin Park Underground EP LP Underground X: Demos
"Halo", a song by Porcupine Tree on the album Deadwing
"Halo", a song by The Pussycat Dolls on the album Doll Domination
"Halo", a song by Takida on the album Bury the Lies
"Halo", a song by Tinchy Stryder on the album Catch 22
"Halo", a song by Slash on the album Apocalyptic Love
"Halo", a song by Starset on the album Transmissions
"Haloes", a song by The Tubes on the album The Tubes

Halo numbers, a numbering system used by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails to organize official releases; see Nine Inch Nails discography#Chronology.
Halo Records, a record label

Halo, the NATO reporting name for the Mil Mi-26 helicopter
Halo (horse) (1969–2000), American Thoroughbred racehorse
Halo, Kentucky
Halo, West Virginia, United States
Halo, a move used in the dance b-boying
Halo, in non-standard analysis, describes the set of points infinitely close to a given point
Halo antenna, a common omnidirectional antenna
Halo effect, a type of cognitive bias
Halo, a certain type of automobile headlamp
Halo or hallo, an informal greeting in some languages, often used when answering the telephone
Halo Meadows (1905–1985), American actress, writer and burlesque dancer
Halo Corporation, a fictional company appearing in Wildstorm comics