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Definition of Cirrostratus
1. Noun. A thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude.
Definition of Cirrostratus
1. n. See under Cloud.
Definition of Cirrostratus
1. Noun. (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena, either partially or completely. Sometimes a banded aspect may appear, but the intervals between the bands are filled with thinner cloud veil. The edge of the veil of cirrostratus may be straight and clean-cut, but more often it is irregular and fringed with cirrus. Some of the ice crystals that comprise the cloud are large enough to fall and thereby produce a fibrous aspect. Cirrostratus occasionally may be so thin and transparent as to render it almost indiscernible, especially through haze or at night. At such times, the existence of a halo may be the only revealing feature, such as producing a halo around the moon. Abbreviated: Cs. ¹
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Definition of Cirrostratus
1. [n -TI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirrostratus
Literary usage of Cirrostratus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1818)
"Much cirrostratus in the morning: rain by half past nine : fair evening. ...
Cirrocumulus, Cirrus, and cirrostratus: abundant dew on the grass all day: very ..."
2. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"Nearly calm : dripping mists, with alternate obscurity, by cirrostratus, and
sunshine. 5. A slight shower at night. 7. A gale at SW: showers by night. 8. ..."
3. The Climate of London by Luke Howard (1818)
"Some drops am: then much cirrostratus: sunset, with streaks of brown and purple
on a yellow ground : moon visible, but its light peculiarly dim : wind and ..."
4. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific by Bernard O'Reilly (1818)
"March 16 : ther 46°, 45°, 40° : wind SSW, light breeze : cirrostratus in long
dark beds in the westward, tinged red with the rays of the setting sun. ..."
5. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1870)
"5 cirrostratus strong breeze. 7 .950 75.5 750 70 69-0 11 ... * Cirrus, strong
breeze. ... cirrostratus in the west.. - 906 779 764 76-0 64-2 .50 . ..."
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