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Definition: Condensation Trail |
Condensation TrailNoun1. An artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A visible trail of condensed water vapor or ice particles left behind an aircraft, an airfoil, etc. in motion through the air. Also called a contrail or vapor trail.There are three kinds of condensation trails: the aerodynamic type, caused by reduced pressure of the air in certain areas as it flows past the aircraft; the convection type, caused by the rising of air warmed by an engine; and the engine-exhaust, or exhaust-moisture, type, formed by the ejection of water vapor from an engine into a cold atmosphere. (references) |
Geography | Cloud which forms in the wake of an aircraft when the atmosphere at flying level is sufficiently cold and humid. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Condensation TrailSynonym: contrail (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Condensation Trail |
| Specialty definitions using "condensation trail": aerodynamic trail ♦ exhaust trail ♦ vapor trail. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "condensation trail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kondensationsstribe (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | condensatiestreep (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail), condensatiespoor (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tiivistymisvana (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail), tiivistymisjuova (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traînée de condensation (contrail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kondensstreifen (contrail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρά συμπύκνωσης (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kondenzcsík (contrail, contrails, exhaust trail, jet stream, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scia di condensazione (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ondensationcay ailtray rasto de condensação (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) estela de condensación (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) kondensationsstrimma (contrail, vapor trail, vapour trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: condensational, intercalations, internationals, nondirectional, nontraditional. | |
-4 letters: consideration, consternation, deracinations, indoctrinates, interactional, intercalation, international, orientational, transactinide, translocation. | |
-5 letters: altercations, alternations, anecdotalist, condensation, conditionals, conditioners, continentals, decantations, declarations, declinations, deracination, desalination, distortional, eradications, iconolatries, incantations, incarnadines, incarnations, indentations, indoctrinate, interactions, intercoastal, interstadial, intonational, nationalised, noneditorial, nonidentical, nonrealistic, nonsectarian, nonsteroidal, orientations, ratiocinated, ratiocinates, rationalised, recantations, reconditions. | |
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