Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the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 multi-level, 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 (from the Greek , ; also known as a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole) is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light that surrounds a person in art. It has been used in the iconography of many religions to indicate holy or sacre ...

, 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 Quidditch is a fictional sport invented by author J.K. Rowling for her fantasy book series ''Harry Potter''. It first appeared in the novel ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997). It is a dangerous but popular sport played by wit ...

, 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 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 adventures of a ...

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

'' * Nimbus, a type of guided missile in the video game '' Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation'' * Nimbus, a flying cloud from the '' Dragon Ball'' series * Mr. Nimbus, Rick's arch-nemesis in the series ''

Rick and Morty , creator = Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon , developer = , voices = {{plainlist, * Justin Roiland * Chris Parnell * Spencer Grammer * Sarah Chalke * Kari Wahlgren , composer = Ryan Elder , count ...

'' *"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 weste ...

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 has integrated, end-to-end media services focusing on Sports broadcasting, marketing, and f ...

, 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 out ...

, a Canadian company *

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

, 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 Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring and service desk products and services. It was acquired by CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that busi ...

, originally Nimbus Software, a software vendor established in Oslo, Norway, later acquired by CA Inc. * Nimbus Rooftop Bar, 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 su ...

, 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 the atmosphere. Halos can have many forms, ranging from colored or white rings to arcs and spots in the sky. Many ...

, 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 meteorological research and development. The spacecraft were designed to serve as stabilized, Earth-oriented platforms for the testing ...

, 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 additionally ...

, a monospaced typeface created by URW++ *

Nimbus Note Nimbus Note is a note-taking app designed by Nimbus Web company based in Cleveland, Ohio. The app is cross-platform, for Android, iOS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Technical overview The app allows users to create notes with document or p ...

, 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 i ...

, 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 3 ...

, a Swedish sailboat design *

Nimbus (motorcycle) The Nimbus was a Danish motorcycle produced from 1919 to 1960 by Fisker and Nielsen of Copenhagen, Denmark, also manufacturers of " Nilfisk" brand vacuum cleaners (now Nilfisk). Two basic models were produced, both with a 750 cc four-cyl ...

, 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 n ...

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. Strictl ...

, 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 Direct ...

, a series of American gliders *

Short Nimbus The Short Nimbus was a British two-seat glider trainer designed in 1947 by members of the Short Brothers design office, who had recently formed the Rochester, Kent, Rochester Gliding Club. The company supported this venture by providing drawing ...

, a British two-seat glider trainer designed in 1947 *

Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus The Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus is a Standard class glider designed and built in Germany in the 1960s. It was one of a series of mixed glass fibre and wood designs from the students of Akaflieg Braunschweig. Design and development The Ak ...

, 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 engine (aviation), inline Aircraft engine, aero engine that first ran in 1926. The Nimbus was developed from the Siddeley Puma aero engine by Frank Halford of the ADC Aircraft, Aircraft Disposal Company, the ...

, 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 single-decker bus body built by Salvador Caetano in Waterlooville, England between 1999 and 2007. It was constructed exclusively on the Dennis Dart SLF as a replacement for the Caetano Compass. MyBus (49) ...

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

Wright Nimbus Wrightbus is a Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus. The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright, until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman ...

, a minibus body

Other uses

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

, 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 is one of the thirty one List of National Institut ...

, an Indian student technical festival *

Nimbus (beetle) ''Nimbus'' is a genus of scarab, stag and bess beetles in the subfamily Aphodiinae. There are about 13 described species in ''Nimbus''. Species * ''Nimbus affinis'' (Panzer, 1823) * ''Nimbus anyerae'' (Ruiz, 1998) * ''Nimbus cartalinius'' (Olsouf ...

, a genus of beetles in the family aphodiidae {{Disambiguation