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cloud-to-ground

cloud-to-ground adjective: involving a powerful electrical discharge between a thunderstorm cloud and the Earth's surface.

Adjective

cloud-to-ground (not comparable)

  1. Involving a powerful electrical discharge between a thunderstorm cloud and the Earth's surface.

Questions about cloud-to-ground

What does cloud-to-ground mean?
Cloud-to-ground means involving a powerful electrical discharge between a thunderstorm cloud and the Earth's surface.
What part of speech is cloud-to-ground?
Cloud-to-ground is an adjective.

Words near cloud-to-ground in the dictionary

  1. cloud-first
  2. cloud-headed
  3. cloud-native
  4. cloud-ridden
  5. cloud-seeding
  6. cloud-to-ground
  7. clouda
  8. cloudage
  9. cloudbank
  10. cloudbanks
  11. cloudbase

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