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cloudlets

cloudlets is the plural of cloudlet.

Meaning of cloudlet

Noun

cloudlet (plural cloudlets)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    cloudling
  2. 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

Questions about cloudlets

What is cloudlets the plural of?
Cloudlets is the plural of cloudlet.

Words near cloudlets in the dictionary

  1. cloudless sulphur
  2. cloudless sulphurs
  3. cloudlessly
  4. cloudlessness
  5. cloudlet
  6. cloudlets
  7. cloudlike
  8. cloudline
  9. cloudlines
  10. cloudling
  11. cloudlings

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