METEOROLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meteorology mean? 

• METEOROLOGY (noun)
  The noun METEOROLOGY has 2 senses:

1. predicting what the weather will be

2. the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)

  Familiarity information: METEOROLOGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METEOROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Predicting what the weather will be

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

meteorology; weather forecasting

Hypernyms ("meteorology" is a kind of...):

forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication (a statement made about the future)

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Derivation:

meteorologist (a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("meteorology" is a kind of...):

earth science (any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts)

Domain member category:

visual range (distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye)

cyclonal; cyclonic; cyclonical (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center)

frontal (of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air)

anticyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center)

broken (discontinuous)

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)

catabatic; katabatic (of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night)

anabatic (of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope)

cyclone ((meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern)

anticyclone ((meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern)

bar ((meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter)

convection ((meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere)

advection ((meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties)

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

occluded front; occlusion ((meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft)

front ((meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses)

isotherm ((meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time)

isobar ((meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time)

meteorology; weather forecasting (predicting what the weather will be)

ceiling ((meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds)

weather chart; weather map ((meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meteorology"):

aerology (meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers)

climatology (meteorology of climates and their phenomena)

nephology (the branch of meteorology that studies clouds and cloud formation)

Derivation:

meteorologic; meteorological (of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions)

meteorologist (a specialist who studies processes in the earth's atmosphere that cause weather conditions)