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noun A visible body of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes ranging up to several miles above sea level.
noun A mass, as of dust, smoke, or steam, suspended in the atmosphere or in outer space.
noun A large moving body of things in the air or on the ground; a swarm: a cloud of locusts.

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A collection of visible vapor or watery particles suspended in the air at a considerable altitude. A like collection of vapors upon the earth is called fog. The average height of the clouds is estimated at between two and three miles, but it varies at different times of the year. The forms of clouds are indefinitely variable; they are commonly classified roughly as follows: The cirrus, a cloud somewhat resembling a lock or locks of hair (the cat's-tail of the sailor), consisting of wavy parallel or divergent filaments, generally at a great height in the atmosphere, and spreading indefinitely. The cumulus, a cloud which assumes the form of dense convex or conical heaps, resting on a horizontal base. Also called day or summer cloud. The stratus, also called fall-cloud from its lowness, or cloud of night, an extended, continuous, level sheet of cloud, increasing from beneath. These three principal forms produce in combination forms denominated as follows: Cirro-cumulus, a connected system of small roundish clouds placed in close order and separated by intervals of sky, often occurring in warm dry weather. Also called mackerel-sky. Cirro-stratus, a horizontal or slightly inclined sheet, attenuated at its circumference, concave downward or undulated. Cumulo-stratus, a cloud in which the structure of the cumulus is mixed with that of the cirro-stratus or cirro-cumulus, the cumulus at the top and overhanging a flattish stratum or base. Nimbus, cumulo-cirro-stratus, or rain-cloud, a dense cloud spreading out into a crown of cirrus and passing beneath into a shower. Globo-cumulus, a term applied by Millot to slightly elongated, hemispherical, grayish pockets appearing in the mass of rain-clouds.
A semblance of a cloud, or something spread out like or having some effect of a cloud: commonly followed by a specification: as, a cloud of dust; a ship under a cloud of canvas (that is, a large spread of sails). The archers on both sides bent their bows, And the clouds of arrows flew. Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight (Child's Ballads, V. 391). A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. Milton, P. L., i. 340.
A clouded appearance; a dark area of color over a lighter material, or the reverse, as bloom upon a varnished surface.

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Everything that's being built for the cloud is a composite of multiple services. — The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
The two important factors that need to be considered when moving the console into the cloud is the latency (time it takes for a signal to travel from your TV / PC to the remote computer & back again - also known as ping) as well as bandwidth for the data to be transferred. — Latest from PALGN
In a way, open source and the cloud are the same thing. — SearchCRM: News on CRM trends and technology
Simply put, the cloud is a set of connected servers which developers can install and run services, as well as store and retrieve data. — MSDN Blogs
Before we get started, I'd like to ask my readers how they would define the cloud is a set of connected servers which developers can install and run services, as well as store and retrieve data. — MSDN Blogs

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Middle English, hill, cloud, from Old English clūd, rock, hill.

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from Middle English cloud, cloude (with rare irreg. variants clod, cloyd), a cloud, prob. a new use of Middle English cloud, earlier clude, clud, a mass of rock, a hill (in Middle English partly confused with clot, clod, q. v.), from Anglo-Saxon clūd, a mass of rock, a hill (the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘cloud’ was wolcen, later English welkin, q. v.). Cf. cloud.
from cloud, n.
Middle English, earlier clude, clud, from Anglo-Saxon clūd, a mass of rock, a hill. Cf. cloud, and clod, clot.

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