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NLC

NLC is the initialism of noctilucent cloud.

Meaning of noctilucent cloud

Noun

noctilucent cloud (plural noctilucent clouds)

  1. Clouds characterized by their electric-blue or silvery-white, wispy streaks, filaments, or ripples high in the twilight sky; Earth's highest clouds, glowing at the edge of space, serving as indicators of climate change, showing increased frequency and visibility linked to human activities like methane emissions and rocket launches; maintain unique formation in frigid summer mesosphere, from ice crystals on meteoric dust, providing scientists with high-altitude atmospheric window into changes in upper atmospheric water vapor and dynamics.
    • See also: noctilucent, NLC

Forms of NLC

pluralNLCs

Questions about NLC

What is NLC the initialism of?
NLC is the initialism of noctilucent cloud.

Words near NLC in the dictionary

  1. NLA
  2. Nlaka'pamuctsin
  3. Nlaka'pamux
  4. Nlakapamuk
  5. Nlakapamux
  6. NLC
  7. NLCA
  8. NLCS
  9. NLD
  10. NLDS
  11. NLE

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NLC (page history and authors); noctilucent cloud (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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