Cloud

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A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the air.

CLOUD is an experimental facility used to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays and clouds.

Cloud(s) may also refer to:

Fiction

• Cloud Strife, a character in Final Fantasy media
• Bou Keng Wan ("Cloud"), a Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan
• Cloud (comics), a Marvel comic book character
• Cloudbase, the fictional skyborne headquarters Spectrum, from the science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Literature

• The Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes
• The Cloud of Unknowing, a medieval mystical text

Music

• cLOUDDEAD, an experimental hip-hop group
• "Clouds", a song by Chaka Khan from Naughty
• "Clouds", a song by Level 42 on the album Retroglide
• Clouds (60s rock band), a Scottish music group that operated in the late 1960s
• Clouds (Australian band), an indie rock group based in Sydney, Australia in the 1990s
• The Clouds (UK band), a British indie pop band from the 1980s
• Cloud (music), sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds
• Clouds (album), a 1969 folk record by Joni Mitchell
• Clouds (Lee Ranaldo album), a 1997 studio record
• Clouds (Tiamat album), a 1992 gothic metal album
• "Cloudy", by Average White Band from the album Cut the Cake

Science

• Magellanic clouds, irregular dwarfgalaxies
• Interstellar cloud, dense region between stars
• Molecular cloud, interstellar cloud containing molecules

Technology

• Cloud (operating system), a browser-based operating system that will instantly be useable after turning on the PC, by the makers of gOS
• Cloud computing, Internet-based development and use of computer technology
• Tag cloud, a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites

People with the surname

• Kevin Cloud, computer games graphic designer
• Michael Cloud, motivational speaker who was the Massachusetts Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate in 2002
• Mike Cloud, former American football running back

Other uses

• Cloud, California, a former settlement in Kings County
• Clodoald, better known as Cloud or Saint Cloud, son of King Chlodomer of Orleans
• Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France
• Cloud (computer game), third-person computer puzzle game
• Electron cloud, analogy used to describe an electron that orbits around a nucleus
• Point cloud, in mathematics, a set of vertices in a three-dimensional coordinate system

See also

• The Cloud (disambiguation)
• Cloud Nine (disambiguation)
• Red Cloud (disambiguation)
• St. Cloud (disambiguation)
• White Cloud (disambiguation)
• McCloud (disambiguation)

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