(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.Wind rose
weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions
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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.Alt. of Breeze fly
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.of Ceil
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
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.Small roundish masses of ice precipitated from the clouds, where they are formed by the congelation of vapor. The separate masses or g…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same eithe…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time o…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Weather, Climate and weather geography.The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storm…
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.The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
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Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.of Beat
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.In different ways; differently; variously.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.Explore Academic Dictionary
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