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词条 Nimbus
释义

  1. Arts and entertainment

  2. Business

  3. Science and computing

  4. Transportation

  5. Other uses

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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud.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

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Arts and entertainment

  • Halo (religious iconography), 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 in the animated series Futurama
  • Nimbus III, a planet in the movie The Final Frontier
  • Nimbus, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
  • Nimbus, a type of guided missile in the video game Fires of Liberation
  • Nimbus, a flying cloud from the Dragon Ball series

Business

  • Nimbus Communications Limited, an Indian media and entertainment company and sports broadcaster
  • Nimbus Data, a flash memory-based storage systems company in San Francisco, California
  • Nimbus Film, Denmark 's third largest film production company
  • Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian company
  • Nimbus Records, a British company specializing in classical music recordings
  • Nimbus School of Recording Arts, a private educational institute in Vancouver, Canada
  • Nimsoft, originally Nimbus Software, a software vendor established in Oslo, Norway, later acquired by CA Inc.

Science and computing

  • Halo (optical phenomenon), also known as nimbus, produced by ice crystals in the sky
  • Nimbus program, satellites for meteorological research
  • RM Nimbus, a 1980s British microcomputer
  • Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
  • Nimbus (cloud computing), an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service
  • Nimbus Mono, a monospaced typeface created by URW++
  • Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++
  • Nimbus Roman, a serif typeface created by URW++

Transportation

  • Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle manufactured in 1919-1928 and 1934-1960
  • Mitsubishi Nimbus, one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot automobile
  • Schempp-Hirth HS-3 Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes
  • Mitchell Nimbus, 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, later Rolls Royce Nimbus, a British turboshaft engine used in helicopters
  • ADC Nimbus, a British inline aero engine that first ran in 1926
  • Albion Nimbus, an ultra-lightweight midibus or coach chassis
  • Caetano Nimbus, a bus body produced in England between 1999 and 2007
  • Wright Nimbus, a minibus body

Other uses

  • Nimbus Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
  • Nimbus Dam, on the American River near Folsom, California
  • Nimbus (horse), multiple horses with this name
  • Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival
  • Nimbus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Aphodiidae
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