(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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Geographical zone
any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
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(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, 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: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.meteorology of climates and their phenomena
Used in the same subject area: Geography, 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: Geography, 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: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)
Used in the same subject area: Geography, 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: Geography, 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: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.(meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime t…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Climate and weather geography.the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime t…
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A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accura…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.Having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: regions, surface, earth, loosely, divided.
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