CLOUD

CLOUD

Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets or the CLOUD is an experimental facility being run at CERN by Jasper Kirkby to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays and aerosols under controlled conditions. The experiment began operation in November 2009.

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Cloud

Cloud is a 2005 indie puzzle video game developed by a team of students in the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Program. The team began development of Cloud in January 2005 with a US$20,000 grant from the USC; the game was released as a free download that October. By July 2006, the hosting website had received 6 million visits, and the game had been downloaded 600,000 times.

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cloud

Noun

  1. A rock; boulder; a hill.
  2. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
  3. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
  4. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
  5. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
  6. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
  7. The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
  8. A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
  9. Crystal methamphetamine.
  10. A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

Verb

  1. To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
    The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
  2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
    The sky is clouded.
  3. To make obscure.
    All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
  4. To make gloomy or sullen.
  5. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
  6. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
    to cloud yarn


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