cloudline

noun

cloudline

noun

Etymology From cloud + line.

1

The line formed by the surface of clouds.

The focus on specific types of outcomes that qualify as genocide is analogous to studying the peaks of mountains from above a cloudline that only particularly tall mountains penetrate[…]2010, Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies:

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