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cloudlet

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A little cloud.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1872, Thomas Durfee, "El Paseo" in The Village Picnic and Other Poems, Providence, RI: George H. Whitney, p. 112, https://books.google.ca/books?id=pIEtAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false I gaze at the beautiful dames that go / In their open volantes up and down; / Bewitchingly floating, by threes and by twos, / In their gauzy cloudlets of silk and of lace, / That seem to have robbed the sky of its hues, / And seem to have robbed the swan of his grace.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cloudling

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English cloud Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English cloudlet From cloud + -let.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Esperanto: nubeto — a small cloud
  • Finnish: pilvenhattara — a small cloud
  • German: Wölkchen — a small cloud
  • German: Wülchli — a small cloud
  • Hungarian: felhőcske — a small cloud
  • Korean: 작은 구름 (jageun gureum) — a small cloud
  • Lithuanian: debesėlis — a small cloud
  • Macedonian: облаче (oblače) — a small cloud
  • Russian: о́блачко (óblačko) — a small cloud
  • Ukrainian: хмари́нка (xmarýnka) — a small cloud
  • Welsh: cymylyn — a small cloud