Meaning

The type or shape of a cloud..

Definitions by Sense

1. The type or shape of a cloud.
2. A collection of particles condensed into a cloud.
3. A depiction of a cloud or something resembling a cloud.

Example Sentences

This article which was a sketchy summary of my investigations, contains also the laws of the motions of the lower cloudforms, such as cumulus, cumulo-stratus, conus.

These observations comprise four regular observations daily on the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and other instruments, giving the pressure,. temperature, humidity, cloudiness, cloudform, direction, and force of the wind, and the rainfall.

The next five plates depict our commonest and, in its infinite variety, most beautiful cloudform, the cumulus.

The flyer or gliding pilot knows well the rising air current under cumulus bursts; their flat bottoms show the exact cold-air level at which condensation into cloudform took place.

Halos are caused by light shining through ice cloudform, usually marking the advance of a warm front — with rain.

Over five miles up, all cloudform is cirrus in type, being composed of ice.

The other was truly alien, a sentient cloudform, an intelligent grouping of tangible electrons.

A sober breadth of treatment and massive dignity of cloudform distinguish “ Evening,” by Mr. J. Olsson, who seems never unmindful of the great importance of the sky in a picture, as too many painters often are.

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Use cloudform when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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