MICROCLIMATE

  

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MICROCLIMATE

Specialty Definition: MICROCLIMATE

DomainDefinition

Energy

The local climate of specific place or habitat, as influenced by landscape features. (references)

Environment

1. Localized climate conditions within an urban area or neighborhood. 2. The climate around a tree or shrub or a stand of trees. (references)

Health

The climate of a very small area. (references)

Solar

The local climate near the ground that is peculiar to a small area (usually, the radius is less than a kilometer, and can be as small as a centimeter). A microclimate region is defined by changes in behavior of the atmosphere's surface boundary layer and not by obvious physical features. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Microclimate

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A microclimate is a local zone wherein the climate differs from the surrounding area. Microclimates exist for example in large buildings and in and around cities.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Microclimate."

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Crosswords: MICROCLIMATE

Specialty definitions using "MICROCLIMATE": forest influences. (references)

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Usage Frequency: MICROCLIMATE

"MICROCLIMATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "MICROCLIMATE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)75%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MICROCLIMATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

microclimate

6

microclimate urban

3

cooling microclimate system

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MICROCLIMATE

Language Translations for "MICROCLIMATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mikroklimë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المناخ المحلي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

микроклимат. (various references)

   

Danish

  

mikroklima. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

microklimaat. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

mikroilmasto, pienilmasto. (various references)

   

French

  

microclimat. (various references)

   

German

  

Mikroklima, Raumklima. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μικροκλίμα. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mikroklíma. (various references)

   

Italian

  

microclima. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icroclimatemay

   

Portuguese

  

microclima. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

микроклимат. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mikroklima. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

microclima. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mikroklimat. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

мікроклімат. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vi khí hậu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MICROCLIMATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "MICROCLIMATE": microclimates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MICROCLIMATE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MICROCLIMATE" (pronounced mī"krōklī'mut)
3-m u tanimate, approximate, climate, comet, consummate, estimate, gamut, guesstimate, helmet, hermit, illegitimate, inanimate, intimate, legitimate, limit, plummet, proximate, summit, ultimate, vomit.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MICROCLIMATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-t"

-2 letters: cliometric, commercial.

-4 letters: acrolect, amitrole, camomile, clammier, climatic, clitoric, comitial, cortical, critical, elicitor, erotical, immolate, immortal, immotile, licorice, loricate, maritime, marlitic, memorial, metrical, recommit, rolamite.

-5 letters: acrotic, airtime, aloetic, article, calcite, caloric, calorie, cariole, ceramic, cerotic, ciliate, circlet, claimer, clammer, climate, coalier, coeliac, colitic, comatic, cometic, comical, comitia, coracle, coremia, erotica, icteric, immoral.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: commercialist, commerciality, microclimates.

 

+2 letters: anticommercial, commercialists.

 

+3 letters: commercialistic, commercialities.

 

+4 letters: microcalorimeter, microcalorimetry.

 

+5 letters: anticommercialism, commercialization, microcalorimeters, microcalorimetric.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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