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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud.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