10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRROUS»
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. - Edinburgh, ...
D 9 „ 779 ` 40-1 370 г Cinto-strati and cirrous haze on horizon. 10 810 ч 38-8 368
i As before. [corona and halo. D l 1 843 40-1 36~9 ' i Thin cin-str. and streaks ofcir
. lying Е. and XV. ; lunar 12 871 40-2 368 , Nearly as before ; lunar corona and ...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Cirrous scud and cirrous-edged cumuli. 0. Send. 2. Cirrous scud +- masses of
curled and flame-cirri, pointing from N. 4. Cumuli to E. and S. ; cirrous haze and
linear cirri. 6. Scud 4- dense cirrous mass. 8. Patches of scud : sky nearly covered
...
July 10 Before sunrise, about four o'clock this morning, 1 observed a long band of
cloud of a sort of loose cirrous texture, the fibres whereof were stretched at right
angles to the direction of the band ; the said band was about 35° of elevation, ...
... well~water 30°; i» blue sky. . Gino-cum. towards N.W. ; cloudy towards E . . . . . .
. . . Cirrous haze vanished, bank of cum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cirro.-cum.
towards N.W. ; cloudy towards E . . . . . . . . . Cirro-cumuli ; bank towards N.W. ...
Sir Robert Schomburg, 2012
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The Philosophical Magazine: A Journal of Theoretical, ...
fiexures, in a manner altogether forbidding the idea of any repulsive force
between them. lloward also supposes the cirrous fibres to act as conductors
between masses of dry and moist air of opposite electric conditions; but though
fibres, once ...
These are called cirrous clouds, from the hairlike pointed form of their extremities.
Some vapours float in a saturated atmosphere, and tend to preserve their volume
. These are called rumuloas clouds, from the enduring heaps they form; they ...
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Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater ...
Heteromeyenia latitenta Foraminal aperture of gemmules with three to six cirrous
projections that are short when compared with those of H. latitenta ............. 11
Foraminal aperture of gemmules distinctly tubular and very long ranging from ...
James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, 2010
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William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
C C, cirrous crest moving with upper current. S, scud moving in lower moist
current. E, the appearance of dropping portions of cloud at foot or back of storm. 4
-4. Jevons's drawing of an "imaginary Thundercloud" in "On the Cirrous Form of ...
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Transactions of the Albany Institute
Cirrous streaks and wisps in horizon. 1 0 Much visible cirrous haze on sun
increasing, and diminishing momentarily. Actinometer, in consequence,
extremely variable. Three observations gave 25.6, 28.1, 30.0, as the haze
gradually cleared.
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Elements of Natural History: Invertebrata, &c
Body orbicular, depressed, with the back naked, and a row of slender, elongated,
cirrous, simple, papillous or spinous rays upon the sides, almost pinnated ; lower
surface of the rays flattened, and destitute of furrow or canal ; mouth inferior ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRROUS»
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cirrous is used in the context of the following news items.
The monsoon watchers
... in mighty masses crowned with cirrous clouds which spread eastwards like an immense parasol over our heads. Then the lightning begins to ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
What words really mean: David Foster Wallace's dictionary
Cirrose and cirrous, from the Latin cirrus meaning “curl” or “fringe” (as in cirrus clouds), can both be used to refer to somebody's curly or tufty or ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 12»
