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CLIMATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
Example:
plants from a cold clime travel best in winter
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("climate" is a kind of...):
environmental condition (the state of the environment)
Derivation:
acclimate; acclimatise; acclimatize (get used to a certain climate)
climatic; climatical (of or relating to a climate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The prevailing psychological state
Example:
the national mood had changed radically since the last election
Synonyms:
climate; mood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("climate" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Context examples:
The disease is mostly a problem in developing countries with warm climates.
(Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A subfield of dendrochronology, which investigates the climatic effect on tree growth, and uses dated tree rings to reconstruct and study past and present climate.
(Dendroclimatology, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Theory that proposes large scale climate changes are due in part to the variations in precession, eccentricity and obliquity that affects the amount of solar radiation received by the earth.
(Orbital forcing, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Remains of food and other materials left in caves inhabited by pack rats which are preserved and serve as a "time capsule" of the vegetation of the time and, by extension, the climate.
(Pack rat middens, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
One who studies ancient (paleo-) climate.
(Paleoclimatologist, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Climate oscillations averaging a few thousand years in duration that dominate Greenland ice-core records.
(Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
The portion of the world's climate system which consists of snow and ice deposits.
(Cryosphere, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Today climate changes are happening at an increasingly rapid rate.
(Climate Change, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
A feedback is an enhancement (positive feedback) or a damping (negative feedback) of an initial change, in this case in the climate system.
(Climatic feedback mechanisms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
"I told Weedon that I was afraid the warm climate would not agree with an Arctic animal."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
