intercloud

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From inter- +‎ cloud.

Verb[edit]

intercloud (third-person singular simple present interclouds, present participle interclouding, simple past and past participle interclouded)

  1. (transitive) To shut within clouds.

Adjective[edit]

intercloud (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) Between clouds of stars.
    • 1977, American Geophysical Union, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, volume 15:
      As the sun moves in its path through the galaxy, it will not always be immersed in the tenuous intercloud region of the interstellar medium.

Noun[edit]

intercloud (plural interclouds)

  1. (computing) An interconnected set of clouds, in cloud computing.