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A stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles
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altostratus
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles [syn: altostratus cloud ] [also: altostrati (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics meteorology English). A principal medium-level cloud type in the form of a gray or blue (never white) sheet or layer of striated, fibrous, or uniform appearance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
altostratus \altostratus\, Alto-stratus \Al`to-stra"tus\, n. [L. altus high + L. & E. stratus.] (Meteor.) A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level; a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles.
Usage examples of altostratus.
Most precipitation, he vaguely remembered learning once, fell from nimbostratus, altostratus or cumulonimbus clouds.
The cloud was broken cumulus, a legacy of the frontal system with endless altostratus riding on the cold air.
And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that “Distribution of Rhizocarpon geo-graphicum in the East Charitum Monies,” detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing “Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis,” a meteorological study of some importance.
And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that "Distribution of Rhizocarpon geo-graphicum in the East Charitum Monies," detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing "Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis," a meteorological study of some importance.
And at this conference there had been no strong attempt to organize the posters into hallways by subject matter, so that “Distribution of Rhizocarpon geographicum in the East Charitum Montes,” detailing the high-altitude fortunes of a crustose lichen that could live up to four thousand years, was facing “Origins of Graupel Snow in Saline Particulates Found in Cirrus, Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds in Cyclonic Vortexes in North Tharsis,” a meteorological study of some importance.
A small wind soughed in the gorse, and the Greayte Star's light struck through thin altostratus cloud.