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What (who) is Cloud - definition

VISIBLE MASS OF LIQUID DROPLETS OR FROZEN CRYSTALS SUSPENDED IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Clouds; Low cloud; Sky cover; Cloud formation; Cloudy; CLoud; ☁; Nephology; ☁️; 🌤; Clouds (meteorology); Cluod
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  • [[Cirrus fibratus]] clouds in March
  • cirrus]] upper-left merging into [[cirrostratus]] and some [[cirrocumulus]] upper right
  • Animation of cloud evolution from cumulus humilis to cumulonimbus capillatus incus
  • [[Cumulus humilis]] and [[cumulus mediocris]] with stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus in the foreground (see also 'species and varieties')
  • Cumulus humilis clouds
  • [[Cumulus humilis cloud]]s in May
  • [[Cumulus humilis]] clouds over [[Jakarta]], Indonesia
  • Cumulus mediocris cloud, about to turn into a cumulus congestus
  • Windy evening [[twilight]] enhanced by the Sun's angle, can visually mimic a [[tornado]] resulting from orographic lift
  • [[Noctilucent cloud]] over Estonia
  • Cumulonimbus]] cloudscape over [[Borneo]]
  • Altocumulus lenticularis]] forming over mountains in Wyoming with lower layer of cumulus mediocris and higher layer of cirrus spissatus
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  • Altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus at sunrise in the California Mojave Desert, US (higher layer orange to white; lower layer grey)
  • Lenticular nacreous clouds over Antarctica
  • Cumulus partly spreading into stratocumulus cumulogenitus over the port of [[Piraeus]] in Greece
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  • A layer of stratocumulus stratiformis perlucidus hiding the setting sun with a background layer of stratocumulus cumulogenitus resembling distant mountains
  • Example of a castellanus cloud formation
  • Sunrise scene giving a shine to an altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus cloud (see also 'species and varieties')
  • Cumulonimbus mother cloud dissipating into stratocumulus cumulonimbogenitus at dusk
  • Isolated cumulonimbus cloud over the [[Mojave Desert]], releasing a heavy shower
  • Cirrus fibratus intortus formed into a Kármán vortex street at evening twilight
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Cloud         
·noun A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
II. Cloud ·noun A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
III. Cloud ·noun A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
IV. Cloud ·vi To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds;
- often used with up.
V. Cloud ·vt To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
VI. Cloud ·noun A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
VII. Cloud ·vt To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
VIII. Cloud ·vt To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
IX. Cloud ·noun A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
X. Cloud ·noun That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
XI. Cloud ·vt To Blacken; to Sully; to Stain; to Tarnish; to Damage;
- ·esp. used of reputation or character.
cloud         
(clouds, clouding, clouded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
...the varied shapes of the clouds...
The sky was almost entirely obscured by cloud.
...the risks involved in flying through cloud.
N-VAR
2.
A cloud of something such as smoke or dust is a mass of it floating in the air.
The hens darted away on all sides, raising a cloud of dust.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
3.
If you say that something clouds your view of a situation, you mean that it makes you unable to understand the situation or judge it properly.
Perhaps anger had clouded his vision, perhaps his judgment had been faulty...
In his latter years religious mania clouded his mind.
VERB: V n, V n
4.
If you say that something clouds a situation, you mean that it makes it unpleasant.
The atmosphere has already been clouded by the BJP's anger at the media.
VERB: V n
5.
If glass clouds or if moisture clouds it, tiny drops of water cover the glass, making it difficult to see through.
The mirror clouded beside her cheek...
I run the water very hot, clouding the mirror.
= mist
VERB: V, V n
6.
If you say that someone is on cloud nine, you are emphasizing that they are very happy. (INFORMAL)
When Michael was born I was on cloud nine.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR [emphasis]
7.
every cloud has a silver lining: see silver lining
cloud         
n.
1) to disperse clouds (the strong wind dispersed the clouds)
2) dark; heavy, thick; high; scattered; threatening clouds
3) rain, storm clouds; thunderclouds
4) a mushroom; radioactive cloud
5) clouds form; gather
6) clouds scud across the sky
7) (misc.) under a cloud (of suspicion); the gathering clouds of war; in the clouds ('absorbed in one's fantasies'); to seed clouds (to produce rain)

Wikipedia

Cloud

In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space. Water or various other chemicals may compose the droplets and crystals. On Earth, clouds are formed as a result of saturation of the air when it is cooled to its dew point, or when it gains sufficient moisture (usually in the form of water vapor) from an adjacent source to raise the dew point to the ambient temperature.

Clouds are seen in the Earth's homosphere, which includes the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. Nephology is the science of clouds, which is undertaken in the cloud physics branch of meteorology. There are two methods of naming clouds in their respective layers of the homosphere, Latin and common name.

Genus types in the troposphere, the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface, have Latin names because of the universal adoption of Luke Howard's nomenclature that was formally proposed in 1802. It became the basis of a modern international system that divides clouds into five physical forms which can be further divided or classified into altitude levels to derive ten basic genera. The main representative cloud types for each of these forms are stratiform, cumuliform, stratocumuliform, cumulonimbiform, and cirriform. Low-level clouds do not have any altitude-related prefixes. However mid-level stratiform and stratocumuliform types are given the prefix alto- while high-level variants of these same two forms carry the prefix cirro-. In both cases, strato- is dropped from the latter form to avoid double-prefixing. Genus types with sufficient vertical extent to occupy more than one level do not carry any altitude related prefixes. They are classified formally as low- or mid-level depending on the altitude at which each initially forms, and are also more informally characterized as multi-level or vertical. Most of the ten genera derived by this method of classification can be subdivided into species and further subdivided into varieties. Very low stratiform clouds that extend down to the Earth's surface are given the common names fog and mist, but have no Latin names.

In the stratosphere and mesosphere, clouds have common names for their main types. They may have the appearance of stratiform veils or sheets, cirriform wisps, or stratocumuliform bands or ripples. They are seen infrequently, mostly in the polar regions of Earth. Clouds have been observed in the atmospheres of other planets and moons in the Solar System and beyond. However, due to their different temperature characteristics, they are often composed of other substances such as methane, ammonia, and sulfuric acid, as well as water.

Tropospheric clouds can have a direct effect on climate change on Earth. They may reflect incoming rays from the sun which can contribute to a cooling effect where and when these clouds occur, or trap longer wave radiation that reflects back up from the Earth's surface which can cause a warming effect. The altitude, form, and thickness of the clouds are the main factors that affect the local heating or cooling of Earth and the atmosphere. Clouds that form above the troposphere are too scarce and too thin to have any influence on climate change. Clouds are the main uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

Examples of use of Cloud
1. The exhibition, entitled Every Cloud, will recreate the giant dust cloud following the explosion.
2. Several unconfirmed funnel cloud sightings were reported.
3. The wind is slack and taking the cloud to the south–west, so the particles will rain out, or the cloud will simply disperse.
4. TURKISH FIRE Cloud of smoke reaches Attica A cloud of smoke, believed to be coming from a fire in neighboring Turkey, engulfed northeastern Attica briefly yesterday evening.
5. The two newest discoveries are among 12 spheroidal dwarf galaxies; two more are the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, a pair of irregular dwarfs.