constitution
establishment
formation organization organisation | the act of forming or establishing something, the constitution of a PTA group last year, it was the establishment of his reputation, he still remembers the organization of the club |
re-formation
regeneration | forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects), renewing and reconstituting |
formation
shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
| formation | creation by mental activity, the formation of sentences, the formation of memories |
cloud chamber
Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
| formation | a particular spatial arrangement |
reticular formation
RF | a complex neural network in the central core of the brainstem, monitors the state of the body and functions in such processes as arousal and sleep and attention and muscle tone |
| back-formation | a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it |
calque
calque formation
loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
| war cloud | an ominous sign that war threatens |
swarm
cloud | a group of many things in the air or on the ground, a swarm of insects obscured the light, clouds of blossoms, it discharged a cloud of spores |
| Oort cloud | (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto, perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun |
| formation | an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit, a defensive formation, a formation of planes |
| military formation | a formation of troops |
Saint Cloud
St. Cloud | a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River, granite quarries |
altocumulus
altocumulus cloud | a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of or miles |
altostratus
altostratus cloud | a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of or miles |
cirrocumulus
cirrocumulus cloud | a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples |
cirrostratus
cirrostratus cloud | a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude |
cirrus
cirrus cloud | a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude ( to miles) |
| cloud | a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude |
| cloud bank | a layer of clouds seen from a distance |
cumulonimbus
cumulonimbus cloud
thundercloud | a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity, associated with thunderstorms |
cumulus
cumulus cloud | a globular cloud |
geological formation
formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
| Large Magellanic Cloud | the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
| Magellanic Cloud | either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, visible near the south celestial pole |
nacreous cloud
mother-of-pearl cloud | a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon |
nimbus
nimbus cloud
rain cloud | a dark grey cloud bearing rain |
| Small Magellanic Cloud | the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere |
| storm cloud | a heavy dark cloud presaging rain or a storm |
stratus
stratus cloud | a large dark low cloud |
seeder
cloud seeder | a person who seeds clouds |
| Red Cloud | leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (-) |
| cloud | any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible |
| dust cloud | a cloud of dust suspended in the air |
mushroom
mushroom cloud
mushroom-shaped cloud | a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) |
| heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
cloud grass
Agrostis nebulosa | Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets |
| formation | natural process that causes something to form, the formation of gas in the intestine, the formation of crystals, the formation of pseudopods |
pair production
pair creation
pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
| reaction formation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them, his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive |
| cloud | out of touch with reality, his head was in the clouds |
| cloud | suspicion affecting your reputation, after that mistake he was under a cloud |
bliss
blissfulness
cloud nine
seventh heaven
walking on air | a state of extreme happiness |
cloudiness
cloud cover
overcast | the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds |
| cloud | a cause of worry or gloom or trouble, the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French |
| cloud over | become overcast, the sky clouded over |
| cloud | make milky or dull, The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added |
mottle
dapple
cloud | colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |