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low-sun

low-sun adjective: pertaining to the sun being low in the sky, such as in winter or near sunset or sunrise.

Adjective

low-sun (comparative more low-sun, superlative most low-sun)

  1. Pertaining to the sun being low in the sky, such as in winter or near sunset or sunrise.
    • These precautions being taken, there was no difficulty in recognizing, first, during frosty weather, when meteorologists know there is a minimum of moisture in the air, what should be the normal appearance of dry-gas lines or bands, for they are only then conspicuous, and are chiefly great B, the...1884, Pliny Earle Chase, Principles and scholia, page 239
    • During the high-sun season the intertropical convergence zone with its thundershowery precipitation affects the areas much as it does in the Ar areas year-round; during the low-sun season the subtropical high pressure cells shift equatorward over the areas much as they occupy the subtropical desert...1985, Paul E. Lydolph, The Climate of the Earth, page 196

Forms of low-sun

comparativemore low-sun
superlativemost low-sun
alternative formlowsun

Questions about low-sun

What does low-sun mean?
Low-sun means pertaining to the sun being low in the sky, such as in winter or near sunset or sunrise.
What part of speech is low-sun?
Low-sun is an adjective.

Words near low-sun in the dictionary

  1. low-spiritedness
  2. low-status
  3. low-studded
  4. low-sulfur
  5. low-sulphur
  6. low-sun
  7. low-support
  8. low-surface-brightness galaxies
  9. low-surface-brightness galaxy
  10. low-T
  11. low-tech

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