Cumulus
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
"In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2."
- 2 a collection of objects laid on top of each other wordnet
- 3 A mound or heap.
- 4 a globular cloud wordnet
- 1 of or related to cumulous clouds wordnet
Example
More examples"In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.
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