EGAVE

contrail

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. verb To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

Similar words

condensation trail vapor trail distrail wall cloud rack snow cloud rain cloud cloud shelf cloud rime

Often followed by

of formation and cirrus in is that to was

Word family

contrails

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