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contrail

noun

Etymology

Blend of condensation + trail.

  1. derived from tragula — “dragnet, javelin thrown by a strap”
  2. derived from *tragulāre✻ — “to drag”
  3. derived from trailler — “to tow; pick up the scent of a quarry”
  4. inherited from trailen
  5. compounded as contrail — “condensation + trail”

Definitions

  1. An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that…

    An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

  2. To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contrail. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA