Cloud (disambiguation)
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A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
Cloud(s) may also refer to:
Information technology
- Cloud computing, Internet-based development and use of computer technology stored on servers rather than the client computers
- Cloud (operating system), a browser-based operating system created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation.
- Tag cloud, a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites
- Cloud storage, a model of networked online storage
- Cloud.com, a company that develops open source cloud orchestration software
- CloudStack, an open source cloud computing software
Science
- Magellanic Clouds, irregular dwarf galaxies near our galaxy, the Milky Way
- Interstellar cloud, dense region between stars
- Molecular cloud, interstellar cloud containing molecules
- Electron cloud, analogy used to describe an electron that orbits around a nucleus
- Point cloud, in mathematics, a set of vertices in a three-dimensional coordinate system
- CLOUD, an experimental facility used to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays and clouds
- Cloud chamber, an experimental device used in early studies of particle physics
Fiction
- Cloud Atlas (novel), a 2004 novel by David Mitchell
- Cloud Strife, a character in Final Fantasy VII media
- Bou Keng Wan ("Cloud"), a Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan
- Cloud (comics), a Marvel comic book character
- Cloudbase, the fictional skyborne headquarters of Spectrum, from the science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- Clouds (film), a 2000 film written and directed by Don Thompson and produced by Will Arntz
Literature
- The Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes
- Clouds, a 1977 philosophical comedic play by British playwright Michael Frayn
- The Clouds, a 1797 play by the British writer Richard Cumberland
- The Cloud of Unknowing, a medieval mystical text
- The Clouds (Las nubes), a 1997 novel by Argentinian writer Juan José Saer
Music
- Clouds (60s rock band), a Scottish music group that operated in the late 1960s
- Clouds (Australian band), an indie rock group based in Sydney, Australia in the 1990s
- The Clouds (Scottish band), a Glasgow-based indie pop band from the 1980s
- The Clouds (Manchester band), an indie pop band from the 1990s
- Cloud (music), sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds
Classical and jazz compositions
- Clouds, Berthold Goldschmidt
- Clouds, Charles Griffes
- Clouds, Ned Rorem
- "The Clouds" (composition)
Albums
- Clouds (Joni Mitchell album), 1969
- Clouds (Lee Ranaldo album), 1997
- Clouds (Tiamat album), 1992
- Clouds (Apollo Brown album), 2011
- Clouds (EP), an EP by Nosound
Songs
- "Clouds", by Chaka Khan from Naughty
- "Clouds", by Level 42 on the album Retroglide
- "Clouds", by Spires That in the Sunset Rise on the album This Is Fire
- "Clouds", by Redrama (feat. A. J. McLean) on the album Reflection
- "Clouds" (Zach Sobiech song)
- "Cloudy" (song), a song by Simon & Garfunkel
- "Cloudy", by Average White Band from the album Cut the Cake
- "Clouds", by One Direction from Four
Other uses
- Cloud (dancer), a b-boy, writer, and director from Florida
- Cloud (surname)
- Cloud, California, a former settlement in Kings County
- Clodoald (522–560), better known as Cloud or Saint Cloud, son of King Chlodomer of Orleans
- Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France
- Cloud (video game), a 2005 third-person computer puzzle game
- Clouds House, a country house in Wiltshire, England
- Cloud, an alternative mid-19th century term for fascinator, a lightweight head-wrap
See also
- The Cloud (disambiguation)
- Cloud Nine (disambiguation)
- Red Cloud (disambiguation)
- St. Cloud (disambiguation)
- White Cloud (disambiguation)
- McCloud (disambiguation)
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