Usually means: Broken, ragged clouds, small fragments.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. fractus: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Fractus, fractus: Wordnik
  3. fractus: Wiktionary
  4. fractus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. fractus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. fractus: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. fractus: Dictionary.com
  8. Fractus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fractus: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fractus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fractus)

▸ noun:  (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.

Similar:
floccus, frag, frass, fumulus, congelifract, friz, flaw, fringe, frac, frisette, more...

Opposite:
intact, unbroken, whole, complete

Types:
cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, more...

Phrases:
cumulus fractus, stratus fractus, more...

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Similar:
floccus, frag, frass, fumulus, congelifract, friz, flaw, fringe, frac, frisette, more...

Opposite:
intact, unbroken, whole, complete

Types:
cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, more...

Phrases:
cumulus fractus, stratus fractus, more...



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