microclimate

English

Etymology

From micro- + climate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

microclimate (plural microclimates)

1. A small, local region having a unique pattern of weather or weather effects that differ from the local climate.

   The microclimate on the south side of a building may differ from the one on the north, so that different plants may thrive.

   The coastal hills are home to many different microclimates.

Derived terms

• microclimatics

Translations

local climate region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微氣候 / 微气候 (zh) (wēiqìhòu)

• Esperanto: mikroklimato
• Finnish: mikroilmasto
• French: microclimat (fr) m
• Georgian: მიკროკლიმატი (miḳroḳlimaṭi)
• German: Mikroklima (de) n
• Greek: μικρόκλιμα (el) n (mikróklima)
• Icelandic: nærveður n
• Irish: micrichlíoma m, miocraeráid f
• Italian: microclima (it) m
• Japanese: 微気候 (びきこう, bikikō)
• Kazakh: микроклимат (mıykrokliymat)
• Korean: 미기후 (ko) (migihu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mikroklima n

  Nynorsk: mikroklima n

• Persian: میکروکلیما (mikroklimâ)
• Polish: mikroklimat m
• Portuguese: microclima m
• Romanian: microclimat (ro) n, microclimă (ro) f
• Spanish: microclima (es) m
• Tagalog: mikpanhunan
• Vietnamese: vi khí hậu

Further reading

• microclimate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia