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n. (jet stream English)
Usage examples of "jet streams".
Above this skyscape of salt-white castles, fibrous cirrus streamed across the sky in feathered filaments, as strong jet streams at thirty thousand feet swept ice crystals from the clouds.
At the limits of the troposphere, jet streams twisted, dirty streaks across pale lilac.
That was better-weather-storm fronts of thought, high-pressure zones, low-pressure cells, hurricanes-the jet streams of biological desires, always making their swift powerful rounds .
In the Januaries and Februaries, sun-warmed southern air lofted into the stratosphere, turned east at the tropopause and joined the jet streams in their circumnavigations.
Faith Hamilton-that's why I checked out the figures-I never take anything on faith-the speed and direction of the jet streams is such that when the main thrusters' air jets touch them, it curves back on itself hyperbolically, producing a turbulence that piles up under the machine in what seems to be a very controlled-and better yet, con.
There were currents in that sea, swift vicious currents that tore through the planet-girdling ocean, ferocious jet streams racing endlessly.
What if six billion people can focus their attentions, their psychic energies -- call them whatever you want -- and that's how we can manipulate weather fronts and jet streams?
In a way, they're like the jet streams on Earth, only bigger and more powerful.
By recording our position from the ship's inertial navigation system I was able to generate a three-dimensional plot of where those winds blew, a sort of weather map of Venus's jet streams.
When his mother objected he smilingly turned his fancy to rocket-boosted gliders that surfed the stratosphere's jet streams.
One day, when the axis of the earth shifted just the tiniest fraction of a degree or when the jet streams of the upper troposphere suddenly deepened and accelerated for reasons mysterious, the wind and desert would no doubt conspire to tumble Vegas into ruin and bury the remains beneath billions of cubic yards of dry, white, triumphant sand.