The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloudlet \Cloud"let\, n.
A little cloud.
--R. Browning.
Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1788, from cloud (n.) + diminutive suffix -let.
Wiktionary
n. A small, or a tiny cloud.
Wikipedia
A cloudlet is a mobility-enhanced small-scale cloud datacenter that is located at the edge of the Internet. The main purpose of the cloudlet is supporting resource-intensive and interactive mobile applications by providing powerful computing resources to mobile devices with lower latency. It is a new architectural element that extends today’s cloud computing infrastructure. It represents the middle tier of a 3-tier hierarchy: mobile device --- cloudlet --- cloud. A cloudlet can be viewed as a data center in a box whose goal is to bring the cloud closer. The cloudlet term was first coined by M. Satyanarayanan, Victor Bahl, Ramón Cáceres, and Nigel Davies, and a prototype implementation is developed by Carnegie Mellon University as a research project. The concept of cloudlet is also known as follow me cloud, and mobile micro-cloud.
Usage examples of "cloudlet".
We reversed the front seat of the Landlouper and sat face to face under the cloudlet, eating off our laps.
The only factor that could possibly have astonished him, just now, would have been the nonappearance of that slight, luminous cloudlet at the precise spot and moment designated.
They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.
And, watching each white cloudlet Float silently and slow, You think a piece of Heaven Lies on our earth below!
Till the last faint western cloudlet, faint and rosy, ceases blushing, And the blue grows deep and deeper where one trembling planet shines, And the day has gone for ever--then, like some great ocean rushing, The sad night wind wails lamenting, sobbing through the moaning pines.
Is rest where cloudlets slowly creep, And sobbing winds forget to grieve, And quiet waters gently heave, As if they rocked the ship to sleep?
Yrrei, is rising through a pink fleece of fine-weather cloudlets and igniting little rainbows in all the dewy foliage.
From the left, over fields and bushes, those large balls of smoke were continually appearing followed by their solemn reports, while nearer still, in the hollows and woods, there burst from the muskets small cloudlets that had no time to become balls, but had their little echoes in just the same way.
Beneath a sky of summer blue, Whose rounded cloudlets, folded soft, Gaze on the scene which we await And picture from their peacefulness.
Damiem's yellow sun, called here Yrrei, is rising through a pink fleece of fine-weather cloudlets and igniting little rainbows in all the dewy foliage.
Above their heads, the bustling bunyas reared some three hundred feet into the sky, seeming to topple against a backdrop of scudding cloudlets.
It was the woman: soft whispering cloudlets, soft whispering vapour, whispering and vanishing.
Indeed, she felt herself back in her own lost house when she opened her eyes to the gloomy and sinuous pattern of the paper on the wall, and the shaggy Boston fern and small tree of a jade plant resident on the windowsill, and the heavily hanging curtains from which one might raise flurrying cloudlets of dust and spores if one flicked against the fabric with a fingernail.
And in your eye floateth there not a cloudlet of unforgotten earthly bliss?
The chronar floated in a cloudlet of silicon dioxide above the boiling Earth and languidly collected its data with automatically operating instruments.