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* [[Helium and Lead Observatory]], a supernova neutrino detector |
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Revision as of 11:41, 3 April 2019
Halo generally refers to:
- Halo (optical phenomenon)
- Halo (religious iconography), a glow or ring of light around a head or person in art or a ring above one's head
- Halo (franchise), a video game franchise
Halo or HALO may also refer to:
Businesses and organizations
- Halo (bar), a gay bar in Washington, D.C., United States
- HALO Technology Holdings, a parent company of several long established technology sector companies
- HALO Trust, an organization to remove landmines and other war debris
- Los Angeles Angels or the Halos, a baseball team
Film and television
- Halo (1996 film), a Indian film
- Halo (2007 cancelled film), an unproduced film adaptation of the Halo video game series
Halo franchise
- Halo (franchise), a military science fiction video game franchise commonly referred to only as Halo
- Halo (megastructure), the center of the game's canon and from which it is named
- Halo (board game), a line of strategy games based on the Halo universe
Music
- Halo Records, a record label
- Halo numbers, a numbering system used by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails to organize official releases; see Nine Inch Nails discography#Chronology
Bands
- Halo (Christian rock band), an American band
- Halo (metal band), an Australian drone/sludge metal band
- Halo (UK band), a rock band
- HALO (South Korean group), a boy group
Songs
- "Halo" (Beyoncé song) (2008)
- "Halo" (Machine Head song) (2008)
- "Halo" (Red Flag song) (2008)
- "Halo" (Soil song) (2001)
- "Halo" (Texas song) (1997)
- "Halo", a song by Basement from Promise Everything
- "Halo", a song by Bloc Party from Intimacy
- "Halo", a song by Cage the Elephant from Melophobia
- "Halo", a song by the Cure from Join the Dots
- "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode from Violator
- "Halo", a song by Endless Shame from Generation Blind
- "Halo", a song by Foo Fighters from One by One
- "Halo", a song by Bethany Joy Galeotti from Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
- "Halo", a 2010 song by Linkin Park from LP Underground X: Demos
- "Halo", a song by Porcupine Tree from Deadwing
- "Halo", a song by the Pussycat Dolls from Doll Domination
- "Halo", a song by Slash from Apocalyptic Love
- "Halo", a song by Starset from Transmissions
- "Halo", a song by Tinchy Stryder from Catch 22
- "Halo", a song by Takida from Bury the Lies
- "Haloes", a song by the Tubes from The Tubes
Albums
- Halo (Current 93 album) (2004)
- Halo (Azonic album) (1994)
- Halo (Juana Molina album) (2017)
- Halo, by Severina (forthcoming, 2019)
Science, technology, and mathematics
- Halo (safety device), a component of open-wheel racing cars for protecting the driver's head
- Halo antenna, a common omnidirectional antenna
- HALO jump, a High Altitude-Low Opening parachute fall
- Halo nucleus, of orbiting protons or neutrons
- Project Halo, an artificial intelligence project of Vulcan Inc.
- Mil Mi-26 or Halo, a helicopter
- Halo, a vehicle wireless charging standard by Qualcomm
- Halo, a type of automobile headlamp
- Halo-, a prefix indicating the names of compounds which contain one or more halogen atoms
Astronomy and space science
- Dark matter halo, a theoretical component of a galaxy that envelops the galactic disc and extends well beyond the edge of the visible galaxy
- Galactic halo, an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy which extends beyond the main, visible component
- Halo orbit, a periodic, three-dimensional orbit
- Helium and Lead Observatory, a supernova neutrino detector
Mathematics
- Halo (mathematics), a concept in the theory of hyperreal numbers
- Monad (non-standard analysis) or halo, the set of points infinitely close to a given point
Medicine and psychology
- Halo (medicine), a cervical brace
- Halo sign, a finding on ultrasound that suggests the diagnosis of temporal arteritis
Places
- Halo, Kentucky
- Halo, West Virginia, United States
Other uses
- Halo (artwork)
- Halo (b-boy move), a move used in the dance b-boying
- Halo (comics), a DC Comics superheroine
- Halo (horse) (1969–2000), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Halo (marketing), a business technique
- Halo Corporation, a fictional company appearing in Wildstorm comics
- Halo, a fictional member of Wild Weasel's Phoenix Guard in G.I. Joe: America's Elite
People with the given name
- Halo Meadows (1905–1985), American actress, writer and burlesque dancer
See also
- "The Ballad of Halo Jones", a science fiction comic strip written by Alan Moore
- Halation, a problem in photography
- Hallo (disambiguation)
- Halo effect, a type of cognitive bias
- Health halo, a specialized halo effect regarding food choices
- "Halo, Halo", a song that placed 14th of 18 entries in a 1982 contest
- Heiligenschein an optical phenomenon giving a bright spot around a shadow, created when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics
- Helo (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Halo
- All pages with titles containing Halo