Nouns denoting natural phenomena
- whole gale
- wind moving 55-63 knots; 10 on the Beaufort scale
- variation
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- impact
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- radiant energy
- energy that is transmitted in the form of (electromagnetic) radiation; energy that exists in the absence of matter
- ballistic trajectory
- the trajectory of an object in free flight
- electric dipole moment
- the dipole moment in an electric dipole
- static electricity
- electricity produced by friction
- sea breeze
- a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
- redshift
- (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding
- cyclone
- a violent rotating windstorm
- power
- energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
- overstrain
- too much strain
- midnight sun
- the sun visible at midnight (inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circles)
- Doppler effect
- change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other
- Lorentz force
- the force experienced by a point charge moving along a wire that is in a magnetic field; the force is at right angles to both the current and the magnetic field
- ice needle
- small crystals of ice
- flash flood
- a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration
- resolution
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- pulsation
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
- wind
- a tendency or force that influences events
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