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.
The noun NIT has 2 senses: 1. a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source. 2. egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing.Familiarity information: NIT used as a noun is rare.Dictionary entry details.ypernyms (nit is a kind of...): egg (animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds).