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单词 noctilucent cloud
释义

noctilucent cloud

/ˌnɒktɪˈluːs(ə)nt /
noun
A luminous cloud of a kind occasionally seen at night in summer in high latitudes, at the altitude of the mesopause: he estimated the height of the noctilucent clouds he saw at 80 to 100 km...
  • One of them is something that I've never actually seen but I had seen pictures of; it's a thing called a noctilucent cloud, this is a cloud that occurs at about 86 kilometres, it may be present more often than we see it.
  • ‘Humbug’ refers to natural phenomena such as heavenly bodies, noctilucent clouds, ball lightning, and man-made objects such as glowing blimps.
  • Evidence of these changes comes from sightings of noctilucent clouds, very unusual clouds seen only in polar regions and known to be in the mesosphere.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Latin nox, noct- 'night' + lucere 'to shine' + -ent.

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