contrails

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A form of contrail — 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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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of contrail
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of contrail

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