nimbus

Nimbus may refer to:

• Halo (optical phenomenon), light or mist from an object
• Halo (religious iconography), the disk by ring around the head of a sacred figure
• Nimbus cloud, Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm
• Nimbus Publishing, Nimbus is a publishing company based in Halifax, NS

In science & engineering

• Caetano Nimbus a bus body built by Salvador Caetano used in the UK and London
• Bristol Siddeley Nimbus a turboshaft engine for helicopters
• Mitsubishi Nimbus
• Nimbus (motorcycle)
• Nimbus (pleasure sailing boat 33 ft), Danish build by Bjørn Olsen 1968
• Nimbus program, spacecraft used for weather research
• Nimbus (spray system), modular aerial dispersant spray system for dosing chemicals onto oil slicks
• Nimbus (unicycle)
• The Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 series of sailplanes

In computing

• Nimbus BBS, A computerized bulletin-board system which began operating in 1992. Owned by Ralph Smole. Started as dialup, is now running on telnetIt can be reached at nimbus.synchro.net.

• 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, a look-and-feel for the Swing widget toolkit for Java and a GTK+ theme.
• Nimbus Sans L is a sans-serif typeface with similarities to Helvetica and Arial, released under the GPL.
• RM Nimbus machines was a brand of computers sold in the UK produced between 1985 until 1987 by Research Machines.
• NimBUS Monitoring system by NimSoft

In culture

• 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.
• Nimbus Brewing Company, a microbrewery in Tucson, Arizona
• Nimbus Broadcasting Corporation, in India
• Nimbus (rapper), a horrorcore/gothic-rap artist from North London, England.
• 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.

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
• Nimbus III, a planet featured in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Member of The Omega Men, an extraterrestrial rebel group from DC Comics
• V-Wing In Star Wars.

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