heat haze

noun

Definitions

  1. A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer…

    A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.

    • Under increase of heat, it volatilizes faster, so as to become dimly visible in large mass, as a heat-haze.
    • Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.
    • Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.

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