cloudline

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English

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Etymology

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From cloud +‎ line.

Noun

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cloudline (plural cloudlines)

  1. The line formed by the surface of clouds.
    • 2010, Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses, The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies:
      The focus on specific types of outcomes that qualify as genocide is analogous to studying the peaks of mountains from above a cloudline that only particularly tall mountains penetrate []