Usually means: Circular glows surrounding light sources.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. haloes: Merriam-Webster
  2. haloes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haloes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. haloes: Vocabulary.com
  5. haloes: Wordnik
  6. haloes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. haloes: Wiktionary
  8. haloes: Dictionary.com
  9. haloes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. haloes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. haloes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. haloes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. haloes: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (HALO)

noun:  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.
noun:  (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
noun:  Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
noun:  (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
noun:  The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
noun:  (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
noun:  (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
noun:  (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
noun:  (motor racing) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
verb:  (transitive) To encircle with a halo.
noun:  (informal) A member of the Angels Major League Baseball team.
noun:  (automotive) Short for halo headlight. [(automotive) A kind of headlight arranged in a circular pattern.]
noun:  (parachuting) Acronym of high altitude, low opening. A type of skydiving where one leaves the launch platform from a high altitude and opens the parachute at a very low altitude.
noun:  Acronym of hazardous area life-support organization.
noun:  (aviation) Acronym of high altitude, low orbiting.
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