climate

Definitions

1. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
   countable, uncountable
2. climate, weather
3. The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
4. The general or average weather conditions of a certain region, including temperature, rainfall, and wind: Caribbean islands have a year-round climate of warm breezes and sunshine.
5. An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. the science of the description of climate. — climatographer, n. — climatographical, adj.
   adj
7. A region of the Earth.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. the science that studies climate or climatic conditions. — climatologist, n. — climatologic, climatological, adj.
   n
9. the climate of the inside of a building, airliner, or space ship, as distinguished from that on the outside.
10. the study of the geographical distribution of rainfall by annual totals. — hyetographic, hyetographical, adj.
    adj
11. the science that studies climate and weather variations. — meteorologie, meteorological, adj. — meteorologist, n.
    adj
12. the branch of biology that studies the relation between variations in climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migration of birds or the flowering of plants. — phenologist, n. — phenologic, phenological, adj.
    n
13. The average weather of a region or place measured for all seasons over a number of years. There are three important areas: tropical, temperate and polar.
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15. clima.

Equivalents

Examples

“As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have⟳ vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.”

“And the effects from climate change⟳ are already extreme.”

“Industries that require⟳ a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.”

“In polling by the Pew Research⟳ Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow⟳ more adversarial.”

“This isn't the time for militant unionism. If I were at ScotRail, in the current climate I'd trade⟳ a pay⟳ freeze⟳ [sic: pay⟳ rise⟳?] for job security.”

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