(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions
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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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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.extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weathe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference be…
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.Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; differ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory use…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.In different directions; to different points.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: weather, showing, frequency, strength, winds.
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