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Meaning:

acronym:

  • parachuting High Altitude, Low Opening. — a type of skydiving, where you leave the launch platform from a high altitude, and open the parachute at a very low altitude.
  • Hazardous Area Life-Support Organisation

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Noun:

  • Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
  • astronomy A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
  • religion nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
  • The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.

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Verb:

  • transitive To encircle with a halo.

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