cloudlet
cloudlet noun: a little cloud.
Noun
cloudlet (plural cloudlets)
- A little cloud.
- I gaze at the beautiful dames that go / In their open volantes up and down; / Bewitchingly floating, by threes and by twos, / In their gauzy cloudlets of silk and of lace, / That seem to have robbed the sky of its hues, / And seem to have robbed the swan of his grace.1872, Thomas Durfee, "El Paseo" in The Village Picnic and Other Poems, Providence, RI: George H. Whitney, p. 112, https://books.google.ca/books?id=pIEtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- We drove briskly up the long, sleeping hill, and bowled down the hollow past the farms where the hens were walking with the red gold cocks in the orchard, and the ducks like white cloudlets under the aspen trees revelled in the pond.1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, page 365
- Synonyms:
- cloudling
- A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
- The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.2017, Kai Hwang, Min Chen, Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive Computing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
cloudlet meaning in Tamil
cloudlet in Tamil
- சிறுமுகில்
Examples of cloudlet in a sentence
- A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
- The shell-bursts from the Fascist anti-aircraft guns dotted the sky like cloudlets in a bad water-colour, but I never saw them get within a thousand yards of an aeroplane.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- At the world's edge began a strewing of roses, a shining and a blooming ineffably pure; baby cloudlets hung illumined, like attendant amoretti, in the blue and blushful haze […]1963, Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice”, in H. T. Lowe-Porter, transl., Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories, New York: Vintage, page 49:
Synonyms of cloudlet
Forms of cloudlet
| plural | cloudlets |
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Origin of cloudlet
From cloud + -let.
Questions about cloudlet
- What does cloudlet mean?
- Cloudlet means a little cloud.
- What is cloudlet in Tamil?
- Cloudlet in Tamil is சிறுமுகில். See Cloudlet meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cloudlet in a sentence?
- A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
- What part of speech is cloudlet?
- Cloudlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of cloudlet?
- The plural of cloudlet is cloudlets.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloudlet (page history and authors); cloudlet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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