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Definition of Contrail
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Contrail
1. Noun. 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. ¹
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Definition of Contrail
1. a visible trail of water vapor from an aircraft [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrail
Literary usage of Contrail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1766)
"... or, what is more rational, reduced to proper bounds. •CHAP. XXI. Of lending
by contrail and the State of ..."
2. The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (1734)
"It has been the general Opinion of ' Realm, a contrail in Words of the ... th.ir Л.
1 B. agtd 19, by entring into an abli-Iute 4 contrail of the ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... and Don Alonzo, by making it the contrail with the King, thought this way to
beget an intelligence between them and the royal party; of the power of ..."
4. A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France by Thomas Erskine Erskine (1794)
"... denominated in our'law, implied contracts—duties inferable from natural juf-
iice.' -That the term original contrail was employed in ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1783)
"... in this contrail.—We muft not omit informing our readers of a piece of
intelligence we meet with in this pamphlet, that during the laft ..."
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