contrail
Noun
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Noun
contrail (plural contrails)
- 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.
- condensation trail
- vapour trail (UK), vapor trail (US)
- French: traînée de condensation, traînée de vapeur, traînée blanche
- German: Kondensstreifen
- Italian: scia di condensazione
- Russian: конденсационный след
- Spanish: estela
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