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A rounded cloud outline, standing for a remote service or remote storage.
Also known as: Cloud icon, Cloud shape
The cloud icon stands for a remote service. The shape comes from network diagrams, where a cloud was drawn around the part of the network whose internals did not matter to the diagram — a meaning of deliberate vagueness that survived into consumer interfaces.
Stands for a remote service or remote storage rather than for anything on the device in use.
Contexts: Software
Is qualified by a small arrow or tick in most systems to distinguish stored, syncing and available-offline states, since the cloud alone says only where something is and not what is happening to it.
Contexts: Software
A closed outline made of two or three overlapping arcs along the top and a flat or gently curved base, giving the profile of a cumulus cloud.