Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the

nimbostratus cloud A nimbostratus cloud is a multilevel, amorphous, nearly uniform, and often dark-grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow, or sleet, but no lightning or thunder.Halo (religious iconography) A halo (), also called a nimbus, aureola, aureole, glory or gloriole (), is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacred ...

, also known as ''Nimbus'', a ring of light surrounding a person in a piece of art * ''Nimbus'' (literary magazine), published in London (1951–58) * Nimbus 2000, a flying broom from the ''Harry Potter'' series * ''Nimbus'', a spaceship captained by

Zapp Brannigan This article lists the many characters of ''Futurama,'' an American Cartoon series, animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the ad ...

in the animated series ''Futurama'' * Nimbus III, a planet in the movie '' Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'' * Nimbus, a character in the video game ''

Tornado Outbreak A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same Synoptic scale meteorology, synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least ...

'' * Nimbus, a type of guided missile in the video game '' Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation'' * Nimbus, a flying cloud from the ''

Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The Dragon Ball (manga), initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was Serial (literature), serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 indi ...

'' series * Mr. Nimbus, Rick's arch-nemesis in the series ''

Rick and Morty ''Rick and Morty'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated science fiction Animated sitcom, sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadvent ...

'' *"Nimbus", a song by 808 State featured on their 1992 single "Timebomb" and also featured on their 1993 album ''

Gorgeous Gorgeous may refer to: Animals * Gorgeous barb, a species of cyprinid fish native to Africa * Gorgeous bushshrike, a bird in the family Malaconotidae * Gorgeous prawn goby, a species of goby native to tropical reefs of the Indian Ocean to the we ...

'' *Nimbus, a 2010 video game for the PC, by Noumenon Games, which combines gliding with puzzle solving. * Nimbus, a character in

Destiny 2 ''Destiny 2'' is a free-to-play online first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie. It was originally released as a pay-to-play game in 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. It became free-to-play, utilizing the games as a se ...

, video game developed by Bungie.

Business

Nimbus Communications Limited Nimbus Communications Limited was an Indian media and entertainment company, and sports broadcaster, known for its Neo Prime and Neo Sports channels. It had integrated, end-to-end media services focusing on sports broadcasting, marketing, and ...

, an Indian media and entertainment company and sports broadcaster *

Nimbus Data Nimbus Data is an American computer data storage software and systems company. Company Nimbus Data develops flash memory solutions.Kerekes, Zsolt"Nimbus Data Systems" 21 November 2012. Retrieved on 28 November 2012. Customers include eBay, Walt ...

, a flash memory-based storage systems company in San Francisco, California *

Nimbus Film Nimbus Film is Denmark's third largest film production company. Nimbus Film has to date produced more than 30 feature films and many shorts and documentaries. Of their more known feature films are the Dogme 95 movies ''The Celebration'' (1998, ...

, Denmark 's third largest film production company *

Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing is a publishing company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company specializes in subjects relevant to the Atlantic Provinces. Until 2016, the company published an average of 35 to 40 new titles a year, but expanded its outp ...

, a Canadian company *

Nimbus Records Nimbus Records is a British record company based at Wyastone Leys, Ganarew, Herefordshire. It specialises in classical music recordings and was the first company in the UK to produce compact discs. Description Nimbus was founded in 1972 by C ...

, a British company specializing in classical music recordings *

Nimbus School of Recording Arts Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud. Nimbus also may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Halo (religious iconography), also known as ''Nimbus'', a ring of ligh ...

, a private educational institute in Vancouver, Canada * Nimsoft, originally Nimbus Software, a software vendor established in Oslo, Norway, later acquired by CA Inc. *

Nimbus Rooftop Bar Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a populati ...

, a bar in Bendigo, Australia

Places

Nimbus Hills Nimbus Hills () is a rugged line of hills and peaks about 14 nautical miles (26 km) long, forming the southeast part of Pioneer Heights in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground s ...

, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica *

Nimbus Dam The Nimbus Dam is a base load hydroelectric dam on the American River near Folsom, California. Approximately of water is retained by the dam. It is responsible for the impoundment of water from the American River to create the Lake Natoma re ...

, on the American River near Folsom, California

Science and computing

Halo (optical phenomenon) A halo () is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting with ice crystals suspended in Earth's atmosphere, the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spo ...

, also known as nimbus, produced by ice crystals in the sky *

Nimbus program The Nimbus satellites were second-generation U.S. robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1978 used for meteorology, meteorological research and development. The spacecraft were designed to serve as stabilized, Earth-oriented platforms fo ...

, satellites for meteorological research *

RM Nimbus RM Nimbus was a range of personal computers from British company Research Machines (now RM Education) sold from 1985 until the early 1990s, after which the designation ''Nimbus'' was discontinued. The first of these computers, the RM Nimbus PC- ...

, a 1980s British microcomputer *

Nimbus (cipher) In cryptography, Nimbus is a block cipher invented by Alexis Machado in 2000. It was submitted to the NESSIE project, but was not selected. The algorithm uses a 128-bit key. It operates on blocks of 64 bits and consists of 5 rounds of encryptio ...

, an encryption algorithm *

Nimbus (cloud computing) __NOTOC__ Nimbus is a toolkit that, once installed on a cluster, provides an infrastructure as a service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs. Nimbus is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements ...

, an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service *

Nimbus Mono Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL in 2009. In 2017, the font, alongside other Core 35 fonts, has been additionall ...

, a monospaced typeface created by URW++ *

Nimbus Note FuseBase (previously Nimbus Note and Nimbus Platform) is a next-generation B2B SaaS platform providing secure, branded workspaces and AI-powered portals for both internal teams and external collaboration. FuseBase stands out for its advanced AI A ...

, a cross-platform note-taking app created by Nimbus Web Inc *

Nimbus Sans Nimbus Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica. Nimbus Sans It is a version using URW++ font source. The family supports Western Europe, East Europe, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian languages. The font names ending with ...

, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++ *

Nimbus Roman Nimbus Roman is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1982. Nimbus Roman No. 9 L is a serif typeface created by URW Studio in 1987, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996 and LPPL ...

, a serif typeface created by URW++

Transportation

Nimbus 42 The Nimbus 42 is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by Americans F. Michael Kaufman and Robert Ladd as a cruiser- racer and first built in 1981.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 362 ...

, a Swedish sailboat design *

Nimbus (motorcycle) The Nimbus is a Danish motorcycle produced from 1919 to 1959 by Nilfisk, Fisker and Nielsen of Copenhagen, Denmark, also manufacturers of "Nilfisk" brand vacuum cleaners (now Nilfisk). Three basic models were produced, all with a 750 cc fo ...

, a Danish produced motorcycle manufactured in 1919–1928 and 1934–1960 * Mitsubishi Nimbus, one name for the

Mitsubishi Chariot The Mitsubishi Chariot is an automobile manufactured and marketed by Mitsubishi from 1983 to 2003. It is a small multi-purpose vehicle (MPV). Based on the SSW concept car first exhibited at the 23rd Tokyo Motor Show in 1979, the MPV derives its ...

automobile *

Schempp-Hirth HS-3 Nimbus The Schempp-Hirth HS-3 Nimbus was a prototype glider built by Klaus Holighaus. The HS-3 Nimbus was a high performance single-seater. Holighaus designed and built this prototype glider in his spare time with assistance from Schempp-Hirth. Strict ...

, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes *

Mitchell Nimbus The Mitchell Nimbus is a series of American, single-seat, high-wing gliders that was designed by Don Mitchell in the 1950s. Mitchell is also well known for his ultralight Mitchell Wing A-10 and U-2 designs.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane Directo ...

, a series of American gliders * Short Nimbus, a British two-seat glider trainer designed in 1947 * Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus, a German glider of the 1960s *

Bristol Siddeley Nimbus The Bristol Siddeley Nimbus, later known as the Rolls-Royce Nimbus, was a British turboshaft engine developed under license by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. from the Turbomeca Turmo in the late 1950s. It was used on the Westland Scout and Westland ...

, later Rolls-Royce Nimbus, a British turboshaft engine used in helicopters *

ADC Nimbus The ADC Nimbus was a British inline aero engine that first ran in 1926. The Nimbus was developed from the Siddeley Puma aero engine by Frank Halford Major Frank Bernard Halford CBE FRAeS (7 March 1894 – 16 April 1955) was an English a ...

, a British inline aero engine that first ran in 1926 *

Albion Nimbus The Albion Nimbus was an underfloor-engined, ultra-lightweight (dry weight 2.4 tonne) midibus or coach chassis, with a four-cylinder horizontal diesel engine and a gross vehicle weight of six tons. It was largely operated on light rural bus duti ...

, an ultra-lightweight midibus or coach chassis *

Caetano Nimbus The Caetano Nimbus was a Low-entry bus, low-entry single-decker bus coachwork, body built by Salvador Caetano in Waterlooville, England between 1999 and 2007. It was constructed exclusively on the Dennis Dart, Dennis Dart SLF as a replacement ...

, a bus body produced in England between 1999 and 2007 * Wright Nimbus, a minibus body

Other uses

Nimbus (horse) Nimbus is the name given to seven different Thoroughbred racehorses Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for ...

, multiple horses with this name *

Nimbus (technical festival) National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (NIT Hamirpur or NITH) is a Public university, public technical university located in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It was declared to be an Institute of National Import ...

, an Indian student technical festival * Nimbus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Aphodiidae *

Cumulonimbus cloud Cumulonimbus () is a dense, towering, vertical cloud, typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents. Above the lower portions of the cumulonimbus the water ...

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