fractus

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noun

A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

OriginLatin fractus →
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Meanings

nounfractus (plural fracti)

plural fracti

  1. climatologyA cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

    FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.

    2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
scud

Origin

  1. Latinfractus
  2. Englishfractus

From Latin fractus.

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APA

fractus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fractus

MLA

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Chicago

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