Cloud (disambiguation)

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the air.

Cloud(s) may also refer to:

Fiction

• 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 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 (play), 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

Music

• "Clouds", a song by Chaka Khan from Naughty
• "Clouds", a song by Level 42 on the album Retroglide
• 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 (UK band), a British indie pop band from the 1980s
• Cloud (music), sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds
• Clouds (Joni Mitchell album), 1969
• Clouds (Lee Ranaldo album), 1997
• Clouds (Tiamat album), 1992
• "Cloudy", by Average White Band from the album Cut the Cake

Science

• Magellanic Clouds, irregular dwarfgalaxies near our galaxy, the Milky Way
• Interstellar cloud, dense region between stars
• Molecular cloud, interstellar cloud containing molecules
• CLOUD is an experimental facility used to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays and clouds

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 that will instantly be usable after turning on the PC, by the makers of gOS
• Tag cloud, a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites

Other uses

• 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
• 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

See also

• The Cloud (disambiguation)
• Cloud Nine (disambiguation)
• Red Cloud (disambiguation)
• St. Cloud (disambiguation)
• White Cloud (disambiguation)
• McCloud (disambiguation)