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fractus

noun

fractus

noun

Etymology From Latin fractus.

1

Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

  • FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130:
Derived terms
stratus fractus
Related terms
fractocumulus, fractostratus

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