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heat hazes

heat hazes is the plural of heat haze.

Meaning of heat haze

Noun

heat haze (plural heat hazes)

  1. A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.
    • Under increase of heat, it volatilizes faster, so as to become dimly visible in large mass, as a heat-haze.1860, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VII (Of Cloud Beauty), § 7, page 110

Questions about heat hazes

What is heat hazes the plural of?
Heat hazes is the plural of heat haze.

Words near heat hazes in the dictionary

  1. heat exchanges
  2. heat exhaustion
  3. heat gun
  4. heat guns
  5. heat haze
  6. heat hazes
  7. heat index
  8. heat indexes
  9. heat indices
  10. heat intolerance
  11. heat intolerances

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