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n. A circular band of colored light around a light source, as around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction and reflection of light by ice particles suspended in the intervening atmosphere.

n. Something resembling this band.

n. A luminous ring or disk of light surrounding the heads or bodies of sacred figures, such as saints, in religious paintings; a nimbus.

n. The aura of majesty or glory surrounding a person or thing that is regarded with reverence, awe, or sentiment.

v. To encircle with or as if with a halo.

n. A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.

n. A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.

n. Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.

n. nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.

n. The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

v. To encircle with a halo.

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.

n. A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

n. An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

n. A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

v. To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

n. A luminous circle, either white or colored, seen round the sun or moon, and commonly of 22° or of 46° radius, the definite radii depending on the definite angles of ice-crystals.

n. A circle of light, as the nimbus surrounding the head of a saint. See nimbus.

n. A brownish circle round the nipple; an areola.

n. Pl. halones (hal′ ō˙-nēz). In ornithology, certain chiefly concentric rings of color in the yolk of an egg: an optical appearance due to the deposition of the yolk in successive layers or strata.

n. Figuratively, an ideal glow or glory investing an object as viewed through the medium of feeling or sentiment.

To form a halo.

To surround with a halo.

n. a toroidal shape

n. a circle of light around the sun or moon

n. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

"One way to remove this halo is to image another bright star in this mode, such as Vega, and subtract that halo from the one around Fomalhaut."

haloed    haloes    haloing    halos   

lightness    light   

glory    diffraction halo    hering's halo   

halation   

haloes   

haloed    haloing    nuclear halo    halo nucleus    neutron halo    halo effect    proton halo   

glory    nimbus    areola    aureole   

kalo   

radiance    haze    glimmer    sheen    glow    streak    blur    orb    ray    wisp