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.
They are usually a darker color of gray than stratus clouds because of their high moisture content-precipitation usually occurs with this cloud type. The base of this cloud can be difficult to identify and it may stretch high into the atmosphere.Latin Derivatives: nimbus - violent rain and stratus - layer.