Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- Kuroshio current
- a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
- amplitude distortion
- distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal
- load
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- corpuscular radiation
- a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)
- electric dipole moment
- the dipole moment in an electric dipole
- boundary layer
- the layer of slower flow of a fluid past a surface
- sea
- turbulent water with swells of considerable size
- half-light
- a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)
- monsoon
- any wind that changes direction with the seasons
- bioelectricity
- electric phenomena in animals or plants
- magnetic resonance
- resonance of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei to radiation frequencies as a result of space quantization in a magnetic field
- electrostatic field
- electric field associated with static electric charges
- zodiacal light
- a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
- reaction propulsion
- propulsion that results from the ejection at high velocity of a mass of gas to which the vehicle reacts with an equal and opposite momentum
- solar wind
- a stream of protons moving radially from the sun
- mass spectrum
- a distribution of ions as shown by a mass spectrograph or a mass spectrometer
- covalent bond
- a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule
- scorcher
- an extremely hot day
- oil pressure
- pressure that keeps oil on the moving parts of an internal-combustion engine
- flashflood
- a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
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