Stratus may refer to:
Weather
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Stratus cloud
Stratus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base, as opposed to convective or cumuliform clouds formed by rising thermals. The term ''stratus'' describes flat, hazy, featureless clouds at low altit ...
, a cloud type
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Nimbostratus cloud
A nimbostratus cloud is a multilevel, amorphous, nearly uniform, and often dark-grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow, or sleet, but no lightning or thunder.Stratocumulus cloud
A stratocumulus cloud, occasionally called a cumulostratus, belongs to a genus-type of clouds characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus, and t ...
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Altostratus cloud
Altostratus is a middle-altitude cloud genus made up of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of the two. Altostratus clouds are formed when large masses of warm, moist air rise, causing water vapor to condense. Altostratus clouds are usuall ...
, a cloud type
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Altostratus undulatus cloud, a cloud type
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Cirrostratus cloud
Cirrostratus () is a high-altitude, very thin, and generally uniform stratiform genus-type of cloud. It is composed of ice crystals, which are particles of frozen water. Cirrostratus is difficult to see and can produce halos. These optical ...
, a cloud type
Music
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Stratus (English band)
Stratus (originally "Clive Burr's Escape", then briefly known as "Tygon" and "Stratas"), was a short-lived English melodic hard rock supergroup. It was formed by ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, the Troy brothers from then-inactive Prayin ...
, a 1980s hard rock band
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Stratus (Serbian band)
Stratus ( sr-cyr, Стратус) is a Serbian hard rock and heavy metal band.
Band history
The band was formed in 2002 by guitarists Darko Konstantinoviċ and Saša Jankoviċ. A former Osvajači
Osvajači ( sr-cyr, Освајачи; trans. ' ...
, a heavy metal band formed in 2002
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"Stratus" (song), by Moments in Grace, 2004
*"Stratus", a song by Billy Cobham from ''
Spectrum
A spectrum (: spectra or spectrums) is a set of related ideas, objects, or properties whose features overlap such that they blend to form a continuum. The word ''spectrum'' was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of co ...
'', 1973
Technology
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Dodge Stratus, an automobile
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Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies, Inc. is a major producer of fault tolerant computer servers and software. The company was founded in 1980 as Stratus Computer, Inc. in Natick, Massachusetts, and adopted its present name in 1999. The current CEO and presi ...
, a technology firm
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Swing Stratus, a German paraglider design
People
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Trish Stratus
Patricia Anne Stratigeas (; born December 18, 1975), better known by the ring name Trish Stratus, is a Canadian professional wrestler, yoga instructor, actress and former fitness model. She is signed to WWE. An inductee of the 2013 WWE Hall ...
(born 1975), Canadian professional wrestler
Places
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Strati, Crete
Temenia (Greek: Τεμένια) is a community and a small village in Chania regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of East Selino
East Selino ( - ''Anatoliko Selino'') is a former municipality in the Chani ...
, a village in Crete
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Stratus (Acarnania), a city of ancient Acarnania, Greece
*The ancient name for the city of
Stratos (Achaea)
Dyme (), or Dymae, was a town and polis (city-state) of ancient Achaea, and the most westerly of the 12 Achaean cities, from which circumstance it is said to have derived its name. The location of Dyme is near the modern Kato Achaia.
Location
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Stratus (building)
Stratus is a residential high-rise building in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. The 43-story skyscraper, located in the Denny Triangle, Seattle, Denny Triangle neighborhood, was completed in 2017, with 396 apartments and ground-floor ret ...
, a high-rise building in Seattle, Washington, US
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Mount Stratus, a mountain in Colorado
See also
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Stratas, a surname
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Stratos (disambiguation)
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (: strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as ...
, a layer of sedimentary rock or soil
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