airmass

Meaning of airmass

noun
  1. A widespread body of air, the properties of which can be identified as: (a) having been established while that air was situated over a particular region of the Earth's surface (airmass source region) and (b) undergoing specific modifications while in transit away from the source region. An air mass is often defined as a widespread body of air that is approximately homogeneous in its horizontal extent, particularly with reference to temperature and moisture distribution; in addition, the vertical temperature and moisture variations are approximately the same over its horizontal extent.
  2. The amount of air through which light from a celestial object passes, normalized to 1 for an object at zenith.

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Hyphenation of airmass

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  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • airmass is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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