Cloudlet

Quick meaning: Cloudlet is a noun meaning A little cloud.

Meaning

A little cloud.

More Meanings

1. (computing) A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.

Example Sentences

The idea is to use the cloudlet as a flexible gateway or portal to access the distant cloud. The cloudlet can be implemented on PCs, workstations or low-cost servers.

The shell-bursts from the Fascist anti-aircraft guns dotted the sky like cloudlets in a bad water-colour, but I never saw them get within a thousand yards of an aeroplane.

At the world's edge began a strewing of roses, a shining and a blooming ineffably pure; baby cloudlets hung illumined, like attendant amoretti, in the blue and blushful haze […]

The water overflowed, creating a wide circle of soggy ground and marsh and shallow puddles above which, in the brilliance of the morning, there was a shimmer of butterflies and dense cloudlets of flies pulsing like veils.

Word Forms

• cloudlets

Synonyms for cloudlet

Depending on context, synonyms include cloudling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cloudling, cloudful, cloudform, cloudbank, cloudery, clifflet.

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