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 clouds are cloud types that can indicate some type of precipitation. The word nimbus comes from the Latin language and stands for rain. There are two different types of nimbus clouds that indicate the type of precipitation. Keep Learning.