air mass
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See also: airmass
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Perhaps a calque of German Luftmasse.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
air mass (plural air masses)
- (meteorology) A particular volume of air, especially one having a roughly uniform temperature, pressure and water vapour content. [from 19th c.]
- 1939 January 2, “Cloudburst”, in Time:
- After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst.
- 2013 December 31, Bridie Jabour, The Guardian:
- The mercury has been soaring in the state since the weekend because of an air mass hovering over Queensland.
Translations[edit]
(meteorology) a particular volume of air