Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kordylewski cloud

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ko-rdylewski -cloud
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the dust clouds found at the Trojan points, the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, in the Earth–Moon system, and of any other such system.

Etymology

Named after Kazimierz Kordylewski, who made the first observations of the phenomenon.

Inflected Forms

Kordylewski clouds (plural)

Phrases

zodiacal cloud zodiacal light Trojan asteroid

Frequently Paired Words

zodiacal cloud zodiacal light gegenschein Trojan asteroid

Questions

What does kordylewski cloud mean?: Any of the dust clouds found at the Trojan points, the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, in the Earth–Moon system, and of any other such system.
Where does kordylewski cloud come from?: Named after Kazimierz Kordylewski, who made the first observations of the phenomenon.

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