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What does HALO mean?

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Noun
  1. (aviation, 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.
  2. Hazardous area life-support organisation.
  3. High altitude, low orbiting. Used in reference to certain aviation crafts. For example, weather balloons, when at maximum altitude are considered HALOs.
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A circle around the sun or moon that is smaller than a halo with a 22-degree radius, is probably a corona.
The Canadian soldiers and air force personnel of Task Force Haiti serving on Operation HALO changed their regular uniform headdress for the United Nations blue beret.
Knowledge of halo effects is crucial in determining how to allocate advertising funds across a portfolio of products.
The other was comically fat, with folds of dead yellow skin hanging in a halo around his massive neck.
According to the HALO foundation, a global organisation that works to remove these ordnances, the country still has the highest ratio of amputees – an estimated 25,000 – per capita in the world.
When she gallantly removes her cap, her glabrous head radiates a glorious halo.

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