Cumulus

Definitions

1. A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
2. A mound or heap.

Equivalents

Examples

“In the sketch⟳ (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.”

“There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take⟳ the late afternoon sun.”

“2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number⟳ 8544, page 9, Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set⟳ of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set⟳ of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get⟳ through the coming storm.”

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