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katabatics

katabatics is the plural of katabatic.

Meaning of katabatic

Adjective

katabatic (not comparable)

  1. Downslope on a mountainside.
    • At the field camp, paper-thin tents shudder beneath katabatic blasts of freezing wind, stoves sputter a stingy flame, and a few trudging specks haul shovels through a cold world where extra food and equipment cannot be bought at any price.2005, Nicholas Johnson, chapter 3, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN

Questions about katabatics

What is katabatics the plural of?
Katabatics is the plural of katabatic.

Words near katabatics in the dictionary

  1. katabasis
  2. katabatic
  3. katabatic wind
  4. katabatic winds
  5. katabatically
  6. katabatics
  7. katablepharid
  8. katablepharids
  9. katabolic
  10. katabolism
  11. katabolisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: katabatics (page history and authors); katabatic (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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