Meaning of climate | Babel Free

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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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