Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

isoneph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: isoneph
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An isoline indicating equal cloud cover.

Example Sentences

"After plotting the amounts in oktas, isonephs were drawn at two-okta intervals. Closely spaced isonephs indicate a sharp edge to a cloud sheet, the edge approximately coinciding with the four-okta isoneph. A station reporting four oktas and lying in a region of close isonephs would have one side of its sky relatively cloudfree and the opposite side covered."

Etymology

From iso- + Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”) (see nepho-).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Prefix: iso
Root: νέφος

Inflected Forms

isonephs (plural)

Questions

What does isoneph mean?: An isoline indicating equal cloud cover.
Where does isoneph come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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