Halo

Halo generally refers to:

Halo (optical phenomenon)
Halo (religious iconography), a glow or ring of light around a head or person in art or a ring above one's head
Halo (franchise), a video game franchise

Halo or HALO may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Halo (bar), a gay bar in Washington, D.C., United States
HALO Technology Holdings, a parent company of several long established technology sector companies
HALO Trust, an organization to remove landmines and other war debris
Los Angeles Angels or the Halos, a baseball team

Film and television

Halo (1996 film), an Indian film
Halo (2007 cancelled film), an unproduced film adaptation of the Halo video game series

Video games

Halo (franchise), a military science fiction video game franchise commonly referred to only as Halo
- Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series
- Halo Array, a group of fictional megastructures and superweapons in the franchise
- Halo (board game), a line of strategy games based on the Halo universe

Music

Halo Records, a record label
Halo numbers, a numbering system used by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails to organize official releases; see Nine Inch Nails discography#Chronology

Bands

Halo (Christian rock band), an American band
Halo (metal band), an Australian drone/sludge metal band
Halo (UK band), a rock band
HALO (South Korean group), a boy group

Songs

"Halo" (Beyoncé song) (2008)
"Halo" (Machine Head song) (2008)
"Halo" (Red Flag song) (2008)
"Halo" (Soil song) (2001)
"Halo" (Texas song) (1997)
"Halo", by Basement from Promise Everything
"Halo", by Bethany Joy Galeotti from Friends with Benefits: Music from the Television Series One Tree Hill, Volume 2
"Halo", by Bloc Party from Intimacy
"Halo", by Cage the Elephant from Melophobia
"Halo", by The Cure from Join the Dots
"Halo", by Depeche Mode from Violator
"Halo", by Endless Shame from Generation Blind
"Halo", by Foo Fighters from One by One
"Halo", by Linkin Park from LP Underground X: Demos
"Halo", by Porcupine Tree from Deadwing
"Halo", by The Pussycat Dolls from Doll Domination
"Halo", by Ryan Adams from Prisoner (B-Sides)
"Halo", by Slash from Apocalyptic Love
"Halo", by Starset from Transmissions
"Halo", by Tinchy Stryder from Catch 22
"Halo", by Takida from Bury the Lies
"Haloes", by The Tubes from the eponymous album

Albums

Halo (Current 93 album) (2004)
Halo (Azonic album) (1994)
Halo (Juana Molina album) (2017)
Halo, by Severina (forthcoming, 2019)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Halo (safety device), a component of open-wheel racing cars for protecting the driver's head
Halo antenna, a common omnidirectional antenna
HALO jump, a High Altitude-Low Opening parachute fall
Halo nucleus, of orbiting protons or neutrons
Project Halo, an artificial intelligence project of Vulcan Inc.
Mil Mi-26 or Halo, a helicopter
Halo, a vehicle wireless-charging standard by Qualcomm
Halo, a type of automobile headlamp
Halo-, a prefix indicating the names of compounds which contain one or more halogen atoms
Pleochroic halo, a microscopic discoloration in igneous rock

Astronomy and space science

Dark matter halo, a theoretical component of a galaxy that envelops the galactic disc and extends well beyond the edge of the visible galaxy
Galactic halo, an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy which extends beyond the main, visible component
Halo orbit, a periodic, three-dimensional orbit
Helium and Lead Observatory, a supernova neutrino detector

Mathematics

Halo (mathematics), a concept in the theory of hyperreal numbers
Monad (non-standard analysis) or halo, the set of points infinitely close to a given point

Medicine and psychology

Halo (medicine), a cervical brace
Halo sign, a finding on ultrasound that suggests the diagnosis of temporal arteritis

Places

Halo, Kentucky
Halo, West Virginia, United States

Other uses

Halo (artwork)
Halo (b-boy move), a move used in the dance b-boying
Halo (comics), a DC Comics superheroine
Halo (horse) (1969–2000), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
Halo (marketing), a business technique
Halo Corporation, a fictional company appearing in Wildstorm comics
Halo, a fictional member of Wild Weasel's Phoenix Guard in G.I. Joe: America's Elite

People with the given name

Halo Meadows (1905–1985), American actress, writer and burlesque dancer

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