Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cloud formation of rounded, fleecy, white or gray masses.
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- noun physics, meteorology A principal medium-level
cloud type, white and/or gray in color, which occurs as alayer orpatch with awaved aspect , theelements of which appear aslaminae , roundedmasses , orrolls . These elements usually are sharply outlined, but they may become partlyfibrous ordiffuse ; they may or may not be merged; they generally haveshadowed parts; and, byconvection , when observed at an angle of more than 30° above thehorizon ,subtend an angle between 1 degrees and 5 degrees. (Abbreviated Ac.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Year in Pictures 2009
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He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.
Cloudy The Year in Pictures 2009
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Jellyfish-shaped altocumulus clouds in the mid-atmosphere, trailing precipitation The impulse to collect can take strange forms.
Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Since moving to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains I have enjoyed frequent sightings of spectacular altocumulus standing lenticularis or lenticular cloud formations.
Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos) Rich Wolf 2010
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Since moving to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains I have enjoyed frequent sightings of these spectacular altocumulus standing lenticularis or lenticular cloud formations.
Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos) Rich Wolf 2010
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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