nimbus

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Turkish - Turkish
Kara bulut
English - English
A gray rain cloud
A circle of light; a halo
a bright cloud as surrounding deities when they appear on earth
A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc
\NIM-bus\, noun: 1 (Fine Arts) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc ; a halo 2 A cloud or atmosphere (as of romance or glamour) that surrounds a person or thing 3 (Meteorology) A rain cloud
A nimbus is a large grey cloud that brings rain or snow. layers of cold nimbus clouds
See Aureola, and Glory, n
halo; symbol of a saint in religious art ~nodding ogee : an S-shaped arch which bends in three dimensions
A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds
{i} aura; halo; resplendent reputation; dark rain cloud (Meteorology)
a dark gray cloud bearing rain
The Nimbus satellite program, initiated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and later operated by both NASA and the National and Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was developed in the early 1960s to meet research and development needs of the atmospheric and Earth scientists, providing global surveillance of the atmospheric structure at low Earth orbital altitudes for the world's weather services
an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
A series of American polar orbiting meteorological satellites
adj describes clouds that are rain producers; always occur in conjunction with another type of cloud i e there are no "nimbus" clouds, but there are cumulonimbus clouds and nimbostratus clouds
a halo
nimbi
rare, plural of nimbus
Turkish - English
nimbus
nimbus (a rain cloud)
nimbus karabulut
nimbus bulutu
nimbus cloud
nimbus

    Hyphenation

    nim·bus

    Turkish pronunciation

    nîmbıs

    Synonyms

    halo

    Pronunciation

    /ˈnəmbəs/ /ˈnɪmbəs/

    Etymology

    () From Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”)
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