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 word may come from a Gamilaraay (Indigenous Australian) word, dhimba, of unknown meaning. It is also the name of a car and mobile chatroom community. A different etymology was offered by Edward Morris in 1898: Jumbuck is aboriginal pigeon-English for sheep. Often used in the bush.