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n. a shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed
Usage examples of "heat haze".
Light cavalry chased off these scouts, but by midday the road brought them to a fine vantage point and here, arrayed in battle order, they could see from the ridgetop down onto the central plain that stretched away south until it was lost in a heat haze.
Through the heat haze he saw the front rank of Liutgard's troops moving slowly up and over the wooded bluff.
Its far reaches faded into a heat haze, although certainly the weather was not as hot as it had been through much of their time confined to the tiny cliff monastery.
The baked desert surface fled beneath the prow of the orbiter already shimmering with heat haze.
He stepped back and, as the sun beat down from a sky almost white with heat haze, Josh thought his life had reached its lowest ebb.
The ripple of early-morning Florida heat haze betrayed the distance of the camera from the launchpad.
He could see the pumping machinery through a heat haze now, flickering back and forth like a mirage.
The details of his face were blurred by the heat haze, but every time he stopped moving I found I could keep the point of the crosshairs within the target area: the face and head.
He was staring at the view--the usual verdant infinity of woods and lakes, shimmering slightly in a heat haze.
Haley, leaning against the fore part of the bridge with a plate of prunes before him, saw through the faint heat haze the outlines of two or three trawlers.
She walked swiftly down the beach, becoming a diminutive black figure that was rippled away by the heat haze.