contrail

English

Etymology

Blend of condensation +‎ trail.

Pronunciation

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Noun

contrail (plural contrails)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• condensation trail
• vapour trail (UK), vapor trail (US)

Derived terms

• chemtrail

Translations

artificial cloud from jet aircraft

• Cherokee: ᎤᏔᏃᎸᏔᏅ (utanolvtanv)
• Czech: kondenzační stopa f
• Finnish: tiivistymisjuova, tiivistymisvana, jättövana
• French: traînée de condensation (fr) f, traînée de vapeur f, traînée blanche f
• German: Kondensstreifen (de) m
• Hungarian: kondenzcsík (hu)
• Icelandic: flugslóði m, flugvélarslóði m
• Italian: scia di condensazione f
• Japanese: 飛行機雲 (ja) (ひこうきぐも, hikōkigumo)
• Malay: jejak wap, kontrail
• Polish: smuga kondensacyjna
• Russian: конденсационный след (kondensacionnyj sled)
• Spanish: estela (es) f, estela condensada f
• Swedish: kondensationsstrimma c, k-strimma c

Verb

contrail (third-person singular simple present contrails, present participle contrailing, simple past and past participle contrailed)

1. To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

Further reading

• contrail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Coltrain, cilantro, cortinal, crotalin