cumulus

/kyoo-myuh-luhs/US // ˈkyu myə ləs //UK // (ˈkjuːmjʊləs) //

积云,积石,積雲,累积

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural cu·mu·lus.
- : a heap; pile.
- : a cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower: as such clouds develop vertically, they form cumulonimbus.

Using airborne instruments to analyze small cumulus clouds affected by the smoke, the scientists found that these clouds contained, on average, five times as many water droplets as unaffected clouds.
On our second day, the smoke scattered in the midsummer breeze and high cumulus clouds, and the air was clearer.
Cumulus Media, which now owns the former Dial Global, declined to comment on the suit for this story.
And I love these wonderful fat cumulus clouds that we get in the sky.
“We've had a tough go of it this last year,” Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning.
A great cumulus cloud piled up like a Himalayan peak in the west beyond my mouse-gray dwelling.
He pointed upward to a break in the trees, to a large cumulus cloud that had assumed a fantastic shape.
In the afternoon small cumulus clouds arose in the horizon, and we again put forward under a temperature of 95 degrees.
It was a detached and imperial cumulus, a great frothy pyramid that sailed in majestic splendor.
He received the acknowledgment and brought his machine around to face the lordly bulk of the cumulus.