cloudform

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The type or shape of a cloud.

   • This article which was a sketchy summary of my investigations, contains also the laws of the motions of the lower cloudforms, such as cumulus, cumulo-stratus, conus.
   • The next five plates depict our commonest and, in its infinite variety, most beautiful cloudform, the cumulus.
2. 2

   A collection of particles condensed into a cloud.

   • The flyer or gliding pilot knows well the rising air current under cumulus bursts; their flat bottoms show the exact cold-air level at which condensation into cloudform took place.
   • Halos are caused by light shining through ice cloudform, usually marking the advance of a warm front — with rain.
   • Over five miles up, all cloudform is cirrus in type, being composed of ice.
3. 3

   A depiction of a cloud or something resembling a cloud.

   • A sober breadth of treatment and massive dignity of cloudform distinguish “ Evening,” by Mr. J. Olsson, who seems never unmindful of the great importance of the sky in a picture, as too many painters often are.
   • To left and right is cloudform or ribbon which the Persian artists derived from the Chinese.
   • Yet, a satisfyingly few artists want to give their own interpretation of cloudform while there is such a challenge to reproduce clouds as they already exist.

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