phantom jam
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traffic jam that appears at a distance on a highway, but in reality is an optical illusion.
Example Sentences
- "Eventually, the phantom jam always dissolves. Sometimes the phantom jams are large and sometimes they are small."
- "The leftover phantom jam might be miles away from its orgin."
- "One of the most affected problems is the behavior of freeway traffic, which includes the appearance of "the phantom jam.""
- "Finally, when interpreting accidents as events “out of thin air”, there are, in fact, phantom jams."