2. Noun. (plural of calm) ¹
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Definition of Calms
1. calm [v] - See also: calm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calms
Literary usage of Calms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"We have already stated that calms are the product of no barometric gradient.
The most persistent calms are found in the " doldrums," or the col of low ..."
2. Physical Geography by Arnold Guyot (1885)
"Trade Winds and calms. 1. TRADE WINDS. The constant, gentle, northeasterly and
southeasterly winds, occupying a belt of about 20° of latitude on each side ..."
3. Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a by Charles Rockwell (1842)
"At length, however, a storm came, and was succeeded by one of those frightful
calms, in which the sea, retaining the motion given it by the wind, ..."
4. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"This The belt of long southerly run brought him into calms the belt of calms or
neutral zone between the northern and southern trade-winds, a little north ..."
5. The Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean by F. Labrosse (1887)
"calms—WINDS—BAROMETER—CURRENTS—ICEBERGS. Zones of calms. Equatorial and tropical
calms.—At the beginning of the instructions for the navigation of the North ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"The following communication was read :— " On Magnetic calms and Earth-Currents."
By CHARLES V. WALKER, Esq., FRS, FRAS &c. Received February 3, 1862. ..."
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