Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- About or near the zenith; relating to objects or observations near the zenith.
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- adjective Around the
zenith
Etymologies
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Examples
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But this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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Normal rainbows are made when light penetrates raindrops and re-emerges out the other side in the same direction but the inverted types, known as circumzenithal arcs, are caused when sunlight bounces off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, sending the light rays back up.
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But this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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Normal rainbows are made when light penetrates raindrops and re-emerges out the other side in the same direction but the inverted types, known as circumzenithal arcs, are caused when sunlight bounces off ice crystals high in the atmosphere, sending the light rays back up.
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this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc.
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If I understand your description correctly, you observed a circumzenithal arc.
vanishedone commented on the word circumzenithal
Environmental Graffiti: 'Appearing like an ‘upside down rainbow’ the circumzenithal arc is similarly formed by the refraction of light through horizontal ice crystals in specific cloud forms.'
July 24, 2008
qms commented on the word circumzenithal
The sun sends at times an epistle
Through water condensed into crystal.
A solar hello
To creatures below
In an arc called circumzenithal.
December 15, 2016
ruzuzu commented on the word circumzenithal
Good one, qms!
January 27, 2017
qms commented on the word circumzenithal
Thank you, zuzu. That one was a challenge and I appreciate your noticing.
January 27, 2017