Definition of Calms

1. Verb. (third-person singular of calm) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of calm) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Calms

1. calm [v] - See also: calm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calms

calmers
calmest
calmeth
calmier
calmiest
calming
calming down
calmingly
calmly
calmness
calmnesses
calmodulin
calmodulin-binding proteins
calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV kinase
calmodulins
calms (current term)
calms down
calmy
calnexin
calo
calomel
calomel electrode
calomels
calophyllolide
calor
calorescence
caloric
caloric nystagmus
caloric test
caloric tests

Literary usage of Calms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"We have already stated that calms are the product of no barometric gradient. The most persistent calms are found in the " doldrums," or the col of low ..."

2. Physical Geography by Arnold Guyot (1885)
"Trade Winds and calms. 1. TRADE WINDS. The constant, gentle, northeasterly and southeasterly winds, occupying a belt of about 20° of latitude on each side ..."

3. Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a by Charles Rockwell (1842)
"At length, however, a storm came, and was succeeded by one of those frightful calms, in which the sea, retaining the motion given it by the wind, ..."

4. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"This The belt of long southerly run brought him into calms the belt of calms or neutral zone between the northern and southern trade-winds, a little north ..."

5. The Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean by F. Labrosse (1887)
"calms—WINDS—BAROMETER—CURRENTS—ICEBERGS. Zones of calms. Equatorial and tropical calms.—At the beginning of the instructions for the navigation of the North ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"The following communication was read :— " On Magnetic calms and Earth-Currents." By CHARLES V. WALKER, Esq., FRS, FRAS &c. Received February 3, 1862. ..."

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