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volcanic winters

volcanic winters is the plural of volcanic winter.

Meaning of volcanic winter

Noun

volcanic winter (plural volcanic winters)

  1. A reduction in global temperatures caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the reflection of solar radiation) after a large, particularly explosive volcanic eruption.
    • People who lived through the Year Without a Summer, 1816, had no way to know at the time that they were living through a volcanic winter; some thought that the end times were beginning.

Questions about volcanic winters

What is volcanic winters the plural of?
Volcanic winters is the plural of volcanic winter.

Words near volcanic winters in the dictionary

  1. volcanic sulfur
  2. volcanic sulphur
  3. volcanic wind
  4. volcanic winds
  5. volcanic winter
  6. volcanic winters
  7. volcanical
  8. volcanically
  9. volcanicities
  10. volcanicity
  11. volcaniclastic

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