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misoscale

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Having a scale of between 40 metres and 4 kilometres (or 130 feet and 2 miles).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

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History

Etymology

Coined by Tetsuya T. Fujita on the basis of mesoscale; each successive vowel in the alphabet refers to a smaller size.