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Definition of Dust cloud
1. Noun. A cloud of dust suspended in the air.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dust Cloud
Literary usage of Dust cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes by Robert Fiske Griggs, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1922)
"THE dust cloud ABSORBED TEN PER CENT OF THE SUN'S HEAT The haze had the effect
of intercepting a very considerable fraction of the sun's rays and reflecting ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"The dust-cloud represented in Fig. 4 was sketched on the Tamarugal Pampa, and
though but a most imperfect delineation of the real thing, still reproduces ..."
3. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"It has also been observed that a few of the engine- readout parameters respond
very quickly to the presence of a dust cloud. For example, the burner static ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"... realize how thick a dust cloud has to be to obtain ignition which propagates
beyond the immediate influence of the igniting flame. ..."
5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1896)
"In other words, the dust cloud, instead of being borne around the globe from ...
When the dust cloud reached the latitude of the tropics, or the calm belts, ..."
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