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cloudtop

cloudtop noun: the topmost layer of cloud.

Noun

cloudtop (plural cloudtops)

  1. The topmost layer of cloud.
    • The rains are only from October to December, and very rarely does the summer cloudtop rise to our level and sweep cool fringes over us, never depositing visible moisture anywhere.1932, Robert LeMoyne Barrett, Katharine Ellis Barrett, Cloudtop Mosaics, page 44
    • A third ring system was added in March 1979 when Voyager-1 flew past Jupiter and imaged the outer edge of a faint, tenuous ring, 57,000 km above the planet's cloudtops.2014, John Westfall, William Sheehan, Celestial Shadows: Eclipses, Transits, and Occultations, page 546

Forms of cloudtop

pluralcloudtops

Origin of cloudtop

From cloud + top.

Questions about cloudtop

What does cloudtop mean?
Cloudtop means the topmost layer of cloud.
What part of speech is cloudtop?
Cloudtop is a noun.
What is the plural of cloudtop?
The plural of cloudtop is cloudtops.

Words near cloudtop in the dictionary

  1. cloudsful
  2. cloudspotter
  3. cloudspotters
  4. cloudspotting
  5. cloudsuck
  6. cloudtop
  7. cloudtops
  8. cloudward
  9. cloudwards
  10. cloudwash
  11. cloudwashed

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