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meteotsunami

meteotsunami noun: a tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.

Noun

meteotsunami (plural meteotsunamis)

  1. A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
    • These surface waves are associated with two ma- jor sources of forcing: seismic activity (tsunamis) and atmospheric disturbances (meteotsunami).1998 June 15, S Monserrat, “On the reconstruction of the transfer function for atmospherically generated seiches”, in Geophysical Research Letters, volume 25, number 12, page 2197
    Synonyms:
    meteorological tsunami

Synonyms of meteotsunami

  • meteorological tsunami

Forms of meteotsunami

pluralmeteotsunamis

Origin of meteotsunami

Blend of meteorological + tsunami.

Questions about meteotsunami

What does meteotsunami mean?
Meteotsunami means a tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
What part of speech is meteotsunami?
Meteotsunami is a noun.
What is the plural of meteotsunami?
The plural of meteotsunami is meteotsunamis.

Words near meteotsunami in the dictionary

  1. meteors
  2. meteorwrong
  3. meteorwrongs
  4. meteosensitive
  5. meteosensitivity
  6. meteotsunami
  7. meteotsunamis
  8. metepa
  9. metepimera
  10. metepimeron
  11. metepimerons

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