HALO
- (acronym) . (aviation, parachuting) High Altitude, Low Opening. — a type of skydiving, where you leave the launch platform from a high altitude, and open the parachute at a very low altitude.
- (acronym) . Hazardous Area Life-Support Organisation.
- Noun. (astronomy) A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- Noun. (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- Noun. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
- Noun. (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
- Noun. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
- Verb. (transitive) To encircle with a halo.
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