Usually means: Condensation trails from aircraft exhausts.
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  1. contrail: Merriam-Webster
  2. contrail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contrail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contrail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contrail: Vocabulary.com
  6. contrail: Wordnik
  7. contrail: Wiktionary
  8. contrail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contrail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. contrail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. contrail: Dictionary.com
  12. contrail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Contrail (company), Contrail (horse), Contrail (software), Contrail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. contrail: Rhymezone
  15. contrail: FreeDictionary.org
  16. contrail: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. contrail: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. contrail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. contrail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. contrail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. contrail: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CONTRAIL: Acronym Finder
  2. contrail, contrail: A Word A Day

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
verb:  To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

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