Nimbus

Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud.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 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 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
 * Nimbus, a character in the video game Tornado Outbreak
 * 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
 * "Nimbus", a song by 808 State featured on their 1992 single "Timebomb" and also featured on their 1993 album Gorgeous
 * Nimbus, a 2010 video game for the PC, by Noumenon Games, which combines gliding with puzzle solving.
 * Nimbus, a character in Destiny 2, video game developed by Bungie.

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.
 * Nimbus Rooftop Bar, a bar in Bendigo, Australia

Places

 * Nimbus Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
 * Nimbus Dam, on the American River near Folsom, California

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 Note, a cross-platform note-taking app created by Nimbus Web Inc
 * Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++
 * Nimbus Roman, a serif typeface created by URW++

Transportation

 * Nimbus 42, a Swedish sailboat design
 * 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 (horse), multiple horses with this name
 * Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival
 * Nimbus (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Aphodiidae