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)