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arctic haze

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables
arc-tic -haze
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A visible reddish-brown springtime haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic, due to anthropogenic air pollution.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined in 1956 by J. Murray Mitchell, a US Air Force officer stationed in Alaska.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Arctic hazes (plural)

Questions

What does arctic haze mean?
A visible reddish-brown springtime haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic, due to anthropogenic air pollution.
Where does arctic haze come from?
Coined in 1956 by J. Murray Mitchell, a US Air Force officer stationed in Alaska.

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