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Nimbus, from the Latin for "dark cloud", may refer to:
Computing [link]
- Nimbus (cipher), an encryption algorithm
- Nimbus Sans, a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica
- Nimbus (cloud computing), an open-source software toolkit for running an infrastructure as a service
Fiction [link]
- Nimbus, a brand of broomsticks in Harry Potter series
- "Nimbus Littling", a 2-inch tall Littling tween who can create clouds by exhaling
- The Nimbus is Zapp Brannigan's star ship in the animated television series Futurama
- The Cloud that Goku flys on in the cartoon called DragonballZ is named Nimbus.
Organizations [link]
- Nimbus Publishing, a Canadian publishing company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Nimbus Records, a British record company specialising in classical music recordings
- Nimbus (technical festival), an Indian student technical festival
Racing [link]
- Nimbus II, a French thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1910
- Nimbus V, a British thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1946, and winner of the 1949 Epsom Derby
- Nimbus (video game), a racing video game
Science [link]
- Nimbus cloud, a cloud that produces precipitation
- Nimbus program of meteorological research
Vehicles [link]
- Nimbus (motorcycle), a Danish produced motorcycle, manufactured in two periods 1919-1924 and 1932-1954
- Albion Nimbus
- Mitsubishi Nimbus one name for the Mitsubishi Chariot
- Schempp-Hirth Nimbus, a family of high-performance, open-class sailplanes.
Other [link]
- Nimbus (literary magazine), a magazine of literature, arts and ideas published in London (1951–58)
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Nimbus (technical festival)
NIMBUS is the annual technical festival of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is touted to be an amalgamation of ideas, expressions, innovations,prototypes, knowledge channels, taken to the most premier levels.
Nimbus has become the biggest technical festival of Northern India.
Organizing committee
Departmental involvement
The various departments of NIT Hamirpur participating in the event are as follows:
Nimbus 2011 – Resurrecting detritus-Alchemy
Nimbus 2011 was multidimensional in the sense that it diversified into two sub themes: "The Da Vinci Machines" and "Rural Engineering". The Da Vinci Machines covered the aspect of implementing the prototypes propounded by a great scientific visionary Leonardo da Vinci. It was an endeavour to innovate, imagine and aspire. This revolves around the central idea: "things of the mind untested by the senses are useless".
Nimbus cloud
A nimbus cloud is a cloud that produces precipitation. Usually the precipitation reaches the ground as rain, hail, snow, or sleet. Falling precipitation may evaporate as virga. Rain comes out of nimbus clouds and this is called precipitation. It is usually formed at less than 2000 feet. They bring continuous rain/snow.
Since nimbus clouds are dense with water, they appear darker than other clouds. Nimbus clouds are formed at low altitudes and are typically spread uniformly across the sky.
Etymology
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning rain cloud or rain storm. The prefix nimbo- or the suffix -nimbus indicates a precipitating cloud; for example, a nimbostratus cloud is a precipitating stratus cloud, and a cumulonimbus cloud is a precipitating cumulus cloud.
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Matrix
Matrix may refer to:
Mathematics and science
Business and government
Literature
The Matrix (franchise)
The Matrix is a science fiction action media franchise created by The Wachowski Brothers and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The series began with the feature film The Matrix (1999), and continued with two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003). The characters and settings of the films are further explored in other media set in the same fictional universe, including animation, comics, and video games.
The series features a cyberpunk story incorporating references to numerous philosophical and religious ideas where the heroes fight a desperate war against machine overlords who have enslaved Humanity in an extremely sophisticated virtual reality gestalt. Other influences include mythology, anime, and Hong Kong action films (particularly "heroic bloodshed" and martial arts movies).
Two of the Matrix video games, both supervised by the Wachowskis, are a part of the official chronology. Enter the Matrix, mainly focused on Niobe and Ghost and also written by the Wachowskis, connects the story of the short animated film Final Flight of the Osiris with the events of Reloaded, while The Matrix Online is a direct sequel to Revolutions.
Production of gramophone records
For the first several decades of disc record manufacturing, sound was recorded directly on to the master disc (also called the matrix, sometimes just the master) at the recording studio. From about 1950 on (earlier for some large record companies, later for some small ones) it became usual to have the performance first recorded on audio tape, which could then be processed and/or edited, and then dubbed on to the master disc.
A record cutter would engrave the grooves into the master disc. Early versions of these master discs were soft wax, and later a harder lacquer was used.
The mastering process was originally something of an art as the operator had to manually allow for the changes in sound which affected how wide the space for the groove needed to be on each rotation. Sometimes the engineer would sign his work, or leave humorous or cryptic comments in the lead-out groove area, where it was normal to scratch or stamp identifying codes to distinguish each master.
