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trowal

trowal noun: the projection on the Earth's surface of the trough of warm air aloft formed during the occlusion process of the depression.

Noun (1)

trowal (plural trowals)

  1. The projection on the Earth's surface of the trough of warm air aloft formed during the occlusion process of the depression.
    • Mid-tropospheric frontogenesis occurred to the northwest of the negative EPV region as the trowal airstream became confluent with the cold air to the north of the cyclone.2010, William R. Cotton, Storm and Cloud Dynamics, page 564

Noun (2) capitalized: TROWAL

TROWAL (plural TROWALs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of trowal.

Forms of trowal

pluraltrowals
pluralTROWALs

Origin of trowal

Short for trough of warm air aloft.

Questions about trowal

What does trowal mean?
Trowal means the projection on the Earth's surface of the trough of warm air aloft formed during the occlusion process of the depression.
What part of speech is trowal?
Trowal is a noun.
What is the plural of trowal?
The plural of trowal is trowals.

Words near trowal in the dictionary

  1. trover
  2. trovers
  3. troves
  4. trow
  5. trowable
  6. trowal
  7. trowals
  8. Trowbridge
  9. Trowbridges
  10. trowed
  11. trowel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trowal (page history and authors); TROWAL (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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