Usually means: Urban areas hotter than surroundings.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat island: Merriam-Webster
  2. heat island: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. heat-island, heat-island: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heat-island: Wordnik
  5. heat island: Wiktionary
  6. heat island: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. heat island: Dictionary.com
  8. Heat island: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. heat-island, heat island: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heat island: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat island: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heat island)

▸ noun:  Any area, populated or not, which is consistently hotter than the surrounding area.
▸ noun:  Ellipsis of urban heat island.

Similar:
high island, island, floating island, Azores High, Islandside, Highlands and Islands, iland, sky island, hill, White Isle, more...

Phrases:
Urban heat island, heat island effect, urban heat island effect, more...

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Similar:
high island, island, floating island, Azores High, Islandside, Highlands and Islands, iland, sky island, hill, White Isle, more...

Phrases:
Urban heat island, heat island effect, urban heat island effect, more...



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