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.
Nimbostratus is a stratiform genus formerly classified as Family Câ low-level, but now considered by the World Meteorological Organization to be a middle- or multi-level stratus type.. Although it is usually a low-based cloud, it actually forms most commonly in the middle level of the troposphere and then spreads vertically into the low and high levels. This change in classification would once have made it a Family D cloud, but this style of letter-based family nomenclature was ...