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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
2. 2
   an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   To produce an artificial cloud of this kind. intransitive

Synonyms

All synonyms

condensation trailbackwashcirrus aviaticuscirrus tractuscondensation trailcourse

Antonyms

All antonyms

distrail

Etymology

Blend of condensation + trail.

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