cloudform

Noun

1. The type or shape of a cloud.
   • This article which was a sketchy summary of my investigations, contains also the laws of the motions of the lower cloudforms, such as cumulus, cumulo-stratus, conus. - 1877, Proceedings of the American Philosophical...
   • These observations comprise four regular observations daily on the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and other instruments, giving the pressure,. temperature, humidity, cloudiness, cloudform, direction, and force of...
   • The next five plates depict our commonest and, in its infinite variety, most beautiful cloudform, the cumulus. - 1939, Tanganyika Notes and Records - Issues 7-12, page 126:
2. A collection of particles condensed into a cloud.
   • The flyer or gliding pilot knows well the rising air current under cumulus bursts; their flat bottoms show the exact cold-air level at which condensation into cloudform took place. - 1943, The Pegasus - Volumes 1-4,...
   • Halos are caused by light shining through ice cloudform, usually marking the advance of a warm front — with rain. - 1944, The Popular Science Monthly - Volume 145, page 216:
   • Over five miles up, all cloudform is cirrus in type, being composed of ice. - 2006, Eric Sloane, Eric Sloane's Book of Storms: Hurricanes, Twisters and Squalls, →ISBN:
3. A depiction of a cloud or something resembling a cloud.
   • A sober breadth of treatment and massive dignity of cloudform distinguish “ Evening,” by Mr. J. Olsson, who seems never unmindful of the great importance of the sky in a picture, as too many painters often are. - 1894,...
   • To left and right is cloudform or ribbon which the Persian artists derived from the Chinese. - 1923, Country Life - Volume 54:
   • Yet, a satisfyingly few artists want to give their own interpretation of cloudform while there is such a challenge to reproduce clouds as they already exist. - 1956, Ernest William Watson, Arthur Leighton Guptill,...