The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
Nimbus typically means rain maker like in Cumulonimbus or Nimbostratus. We really don't classify a cloud as a nimbus cloud anymore, but attach that word, or a form of it) to other cloud types to depict a specific type of cloud. cyswxman Â· 8 years ago. Thumbs up.