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 of johnson
• HALO Technology Holdings, a parent company of several long established technology sector companies
• HALO Trust, an organization to remove landmines and other war debrief
• 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" (Starset song) (2015)
• "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 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
• HaloTag, a protein tag derived from haloalkane dehalogenase

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 brace, 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, 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

See also

• "The Ballad of Halo Jones", a science fiction comic strip written by Alan Moore
• Halation, a problem in photography
• Hallo (disambiguation)
• Halo effect, a type of cognitive bias
  • Health halo, a specialized halo effect regarding food choices
• The Halo Effect (book), a business book published in 2006
• "Halo, Halo", Yugoslavian song that placed 14th of 18 entries in the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest
• Heiligenschein an optical phenomenon giving a bright spot around a shadow, created when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics
• Helo (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Halo
• All pages with titles containing Halo