cumulus
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈkjuːmjələs/
cumulus (plural cumuli)
- A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
- 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
- Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.
- 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
- A mound or heap.
- German: Quellwolke, Haufenwolke, Kumuluswolke, Cumulus
- Italian: cumulo
- Portuguese: cúmulo
- Russian: кучевое
- Spanish: cúmulo
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