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Definition of Polar front
1. Noun. The front of an advancing mass of colder air.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polar Front
Literary usage of Polar front
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"It marks a kind of "polar front." The waves of this line have a general ...
In this way the polar-front line sweeps over the whole of that zone which is ..."
2. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop edited by Caroline M. Isaacs, Vera L. Tharp (1995)
"The wintertime polar-front jet is a zone of strong winds, meandering in g ...
This area coincides with the polar front, or the region of maximum horizontal ..."
3. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"The polar front also occurs over the northern hemisphere, but it is less clearly
seen because it crosses the land masses of the United States, ..."
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