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Definition of Katabatic

1. Adjective. Of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night.

Definition of Katabatic

1. [adj]

Katabatic Pictures

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Katabatic

kashruths kashruts Kasparov Kaspar Friedrich Wolff kassinin Kassite Kasten's fluorescent Feulgen stain Kasten's fluorescent PAS stain Kasten's fluorescent Schiff reagents Kastler

kasugamycin kat kat kata kata- katabatic (current term) katabatic wind katabolic katabolism katakana

katakanas katal katamorphism katana katanas Katar Katari Katar Peninsula katas katathermometer

Literary usage of Katabatic

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1. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"Often katabatic winds will wedge their way under the layer of warmer air in the valley, ... katabatic winds are very gentle in most parts of the world, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... of a downward series of changes (katabatic changes), a stair of many steps, in which more complex bodies are broken down with the setting free of energy ..."

3. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"This drainage flow is known indifferently as the mountain breeze, or mountain wind; also canyon wind, katabatic wind, and gravity wind. ..."

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