What is the meaning of HALO. Phrases containing HALO
See meanings and uses of HALO!HALO
HALO
Astronomy
Halogen Occultation Experiment
HALO
HALO
HALO
HALO
Acronyms & AI meanings
Westmoreland County Agricultural Land Preservation
Na -taurocholate cotransport polypeptide
Financial Responsibility Account
Lip Balm Anonymous Fremont
Roelof Van Echten College
Tystysgrif Addysg Alwedigaethol Uwch
Acetic Acid
Panther Cycling Club
Graphics System Connect
North Carolina Technologies Association
HALO
HALO
A beautiful American ascidian (Cynthia, / Halocynthia, pyriformis) having the size, form, velvety surface, and color of a ripe peach.
HALO
n.
A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
n.
A haloid substance.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Halo
n.
An electro-negative element or radical, which, by combination with a metal, forms a haloid salt; especially, chlorine, bromine, and iodine; sometimes, also, fluorine and cyanogen. See Chlorine family, under Chlorine.
v. t. & i.
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
n.
A halogen.
n.
An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
n.
A luminous spot occasionally seen a few degrees from the sun, supposed to be formed by the intersection of two or more halos, or in a manner similar to that of halos.
n.
A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
a.
Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified.
n.
A diving petrel of Australia (Halodroma wrinatrix).
n.
A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.
a.
Of the nature of a halogen.
n.
An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder.
imp. & p. p.
of Halo
n.
A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.
n.
An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.
n.
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
pl.
of Halo
HALO
HALO