nimbus 的定义
plural nim·bi [nim-buhbahy], /ˈnɪm bəbaɪ/, nim·bus·es.
- Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing: The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame.
- halo.
- the type of dense clouds or cloud mass with ragged edges, that yields rain or snow; a rain cloud.
- U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of polar-orbiting meteorological and environmental research satellites, the last of which Nimbus 7, launched 1978, was the first satellite designed to monitor atmospheric pollutants.
nimbus 近义词
cloud
更多nimbus例句
- As journalists report bolder acts by the renegades, Nimbus and his friends are forced to move further from childhood innocence.
- But the nimbus was not worn at all at this early period; such a criterion is therefore inadmissible.
- In one example Mary wears a nimbus, a proof of comparatively late date.
- In later art the hand is sometimes surrounded by a cruciform nimbus, to indicate more clearly its divine character.
- This is a Saint, as he has the nimbus round his head, and from his young and beardless face it is probably St. John.
- Overcast skies of heavy nimbus cloud were the rule and the air was continually charged with drifting snow.