(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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the front of an advancing mass of colder air
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a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyn…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.meteorology of climates and their phenomena
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
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The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.Face to face, or front to front; facing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: front, advancing, mass, colder.
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