El Niño

See also El Nino

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• El Nino

Etymology

Spanish, meaning “The Little Boy,” referring to the Christ child, as the phenomenon is observed around Christmas time

Noun

El Niño (plural El Niños)

1. An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador every four to seven years that causes changes in local and regional climate, associated with a positive anomaly.

   Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity. (Houston Chronicle, 5/23/2007)

Related terms

• La Niña
• super-Niño

Translations

a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon

• French: El Niño (fr) m
• German: El Niño (de) m
• Japanese: エルニーニョ (ja) (erunīnyo)
• Marathi: एल निन्यो (mr) (el ninyo)

• Russian: Эль-Ниньо (ru) (El'-Nin'o)
• Spanish: El Niño (es) m
• Turkish: El Niño (tr)

Anagrams

• Lonnie
• online, on line, on-line

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Spanish

Proper noun

El Niño m

1. The Christ child
2. El Niño (ocean current)

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Turkish

Proper noun

El Niño (definite accusative El Niño'yu, plural El Niño'lar)

1. (meteorology) El Niño (ocean current)