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.
Examples of nimbus in a Sentence. 1  fans are inevitably disappointed when the nimbus of glamour about their favorite celebrity turns out to be an illusion. 2  the nimbi for the sculpted figures around the exterior of the church are simple disks about the saints' heads.