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==Acronyms== |
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* [[HALO jump]], |
* [[HALO jump]], a High Altitude-Low Opening parachute jump |
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* [[HALO Technology Holdings]], a parent company of several long established technology sector companies |
* [[HALO Technology Holdings]], a parent company of several long established technology sector companies |
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* [[HALO Trust]], an organization to remove war debris |
* [[HALO Trust]], an organization to remove war debris |
Revision as of 16:26, 20 November 2014
Halo may refer to:
- Halo (religious iconography), a glow or ring of light around a head or person in art
Acronyms
- HALO jump, a High Altitude-Low Opening parachute jump
- HALO Technology Holdings, a parent company of several long established technology sector companies
- HALO Trust, an organization to remove war debris
Business and organizations
- Halo (bar), a gay bar in Washington, D.C., United States
- Halo Dogs, The largest dog daycare centre in the world, London UK
- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, a baseball team, nicknamed "the Halos"
- A vehicle wireless charging standard by Qualcomm
Science and medicine
- Halo (optical phenomenon), an atmospheric light effect produced by ice crystals
- Galactic halo, an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy which extends beyond the main, visible component
- Heiligenschein an optical phenomenon giving a bright spot around a shadow, created when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics
- Halo nucleus, of orbiting protons or neutrons
- Halo orbit, a periodic, three-dimensional orbit
- Halo- (disambiguation), a chemical prefix
- Halo (mathematics), a concept in the theory of hyperreal numbers
- Halo (medicine), a cervical brace
- Halo sign, a finding on ultrasound that suggests the diagnosis of temporal arteritis
- Halo Project (Project Halo), computer science "digital Aristotle"
Media and entertainment
Characters
- Halo (G.I. Joe), a fictional member of the Phoenix Guard in G.I. Joe: America's Elite
- Halo (comics), a DC Comics superheroine
Films
- Halo (1996 film), a 1996 Indian film
- Halo (2007 cancelled film), a never produced film adaptation of the Halo video game series
- Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012 film), a science fiction action film set in the universe of the Halo franchise
Games
- Halo (series), a video game franchise by Bungie, 343 Industries, and Microsoft Game Studios
- Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series commonly referred to only as Halo
- Halo (megastructure), the megastructure that is the center of the game's canon and from which it is named
- Halo (board game), strategy games based on the Halo universe
Music
Bands
- Halo (Christian rock band), an American group
- Halo (metal band), an Australian drone/sludge metal band
- Halo (UK band), a rock group
- Halo Circus
Songs
- "Halo" (Beyoncé song), 2008
- "Halo" (Machine Head song), the third single from the album The Blackening by Machine Head
- "Halo" (Red Flag song)
- "Halo" (Soil song), the first single off metal band Soil's second studio album, Scars
- "Halo" (Texas song), 1997
- "Halo", a song by Bethany Joy Galeotti on the album Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
- "Halo", a song by Bloc Party on the album Intimacy
- "Halo", a song by The Cure on the album Join the Dots
- "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode on the album Violator
- "Halo", a song by Endless Shame on the album Generation Blind
- "Halo", a song by Foo Fighters on the album One by One
- "Halo", a song by Linkin Park from the 2010 Linkin Park Underground EP LP Underground X: Demos
- "Halo", a song by Porcupine Tree on the album Deadwing
- "Halo", a song by The Pussycat Dolls on the album Doll Domination
- "Halo", a song by Takida on the album Bury the Lies
- "Halo", a song by Tinchy Stryder on the album Catch 22
- "Halo", a song by Slash on the album Apocalyptic Love
- "Haloes", a song by The Tubes on the album The Tubes
Albums
- Halo (Current 93 album), a live album, released in 2004, by Current 93
- Halo (Azonic album), 1994 Azonic album
Other uses in music
- Halo numbers, a numbering system used by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails to organize official releases; see Nine Inch Nails discography#Chronology.
- Halo Records, a record label
Other uses
- Halo, the NATO reporting name for the Mil Mi-26 helicopter
- Halo (horse) (1969–2000), American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Halo, Kentucky
- Halo, West Virginia, United States
- Halo, a move used in the dance b-boying
- Halo, in non-standard analysis, describes the set of points infinitely close to a given point
- Halo antenna, a common omni-directional antenna
- Halo effect, a type of cognitive bias
- Halo, a certain type of automobile headlamp
- Halo or hallo, an informal greeting in some languages, often used when answering the telephone
- Halo Meadows (1905–1985), American actress, writer and burlesque dancer
- Halo Corporation, a fictional company appearing in Wildstorm comics
- HALO, an early IBM PC graphics software for third party graphic boards, published by Media Cybernetics in 1982.