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Meanings of contrail in anglès

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An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

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        Sinònims
        Examples for "kondensstreifen"
        Examples for "kondensstreifen"
        1
        A condensation trail arced suddenly into the sky, launched from one of the Iscan heavies.
        The last page
        2
        Condensation trails are a consequence of interaction between the exhaust gases from a plane's engines and the surrounding air.
        The Irish Times
        3
        But in fact he was curious about condensation trails, those elongated streaks of cloud that form a wake behind high flying aircraft.
        The Irish Times
        1
        He was still watching the vapor trail as the cab pulled away.
        The Penal Cluster
        2
        A straight, narrow line pointed dead ahead: the vapor trail from Teela's flycycle.
        Ringworld
        3
        I swear she moves so fast she leaves a vapor trail most days.
        No mercy
        4
        Its vapor trail spread, cold silver on a sky of slate.
        Timescape
        5
        High above, a white vapor trail streaked a cloudless blue sky.
        Bones Never Lie
        1
        It showed footage of a missile launch in desert-like terrain, leaving a vapour trail.
        The Irish Times
        2
        In a time of darkness smoke stacks are soon lost, a vapour trail drifts in the dawn light.
        The Irish Times
        3
        As it passed over the Grand Teton National Park, one alert tourist photo-graphed the incandescent fireball and its long vapour trail.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        4
        But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere.
        Childhood's End
        5
        Using her ball control, Var moved the pointer up alongside one of the satellites, pausing it on a lengthy vapour trail.
        The Departure
        Usage of contrail in anglès
        1
        The sky was powder blue and cloudless -not even a contrail.
        Foxglove Summer
        2
        Threads of the yellow contrail hung in the limbs of the trees.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
        3
        Skies as delicate as translucent china, unscarred by cloud or contrail.
        The Hyperion Cantos
        4
        Then he looked up and saw the contrail of an airliner, high overhead.
        Wild Storm
        5
        A horizontal contrail of scintillating dust stretched out through the air behind them.
        The Naked God
        6
        Like a contrail, an invisible finger writing in brilliant cloud, descending.
        Quantico
        7
        Glittering green energy streamed from her wounds and hung in a contrail behind her.
        Mob rules
        8
        This one rides its winding thermal across the double track of a plane's contrail.
        The Guardian
        9
        It was a broad bright ribbon, rainbow-wide, a cyanotic contrail.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
        10
        A rocket exploded in his head, leaving a contrail of stars... and then nothing.
        The Shining
        11
        Overhead, a jet traced a white contrail across the sky at thirty-five thousand feet.
        In the Tall Grass
        12
        A plane left a long contrail in the sky.
        Private Sector
        13
        Those that moved over the land had left a contrail of dead vegetation behind them.
        The Naked God
        14
        Scientists call these "contrail cirrus"-high-altitudeclouds that can spread over hundreds of square miles.
        Wired
        15
        It's loud and bright and leaves a contrail.
        Wild Storm
        16
        You can see its contrail over the ocean.
        Year's best sf 15