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oktas

oktas is the plural of okta.

Meaning of okta

Noun

okta (plural oktas or okta)

  1. One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
    • ...64% of the low- and 50% of the high-cloud amount differences were within ± 1 okta, although many of these successes (71% in the low-cloud amount) were for cases of totally clear or totally cloudy skies.1960, American Meteorological Society, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, American Meteorological Society, Page 480

Questions about oktas

What is oktas the plural of?
Oktas is the plural of okta.

Words near oktas in the dictionary

  1. Oksana
  2. okta
  3. oktadrachm
  4. oktadrachms
  5. Oktaha
  6. oktas
  7. Oktibbeha County
  8. Oktoberfest
  9. Oktoberfests
  10. Oktoechos
  11. Oktyabrsky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oktas (page history and authors); okta (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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