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(Latin: mist, fog, cloud, smoke)
(Latin: cloud, fog; shade; dark or obscure, not easy to comprehend)
(Greek: to smoke; smoke, mist, vapor, hot vapor, steam, cloud, fog; stupor [insensibility, numbness, dullness]; used exclusively in medicine as a reference to fever accompanied by stupor or a clouding of the mind resulting from the fever caused by a severe-infectious disease)
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fog
The basis of a cloud that reaches the ground.
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advection fog
Fog that forms when warmer humid air flows over cooler ground or water.
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ground fog
Fog that forms when the ground cools.
It rises less than about 200 feet (61 meters).
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sea smoke, steam fog
Fog that forms when cooler air flows over a warmer body of water.
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smog: smoke + fog
1. A mixture of fog and smoke or other airborne pollutants such as exhaust fumes.
2. A blend of smoke and fog.
2. A blend of smoke and fog.
- Smoke: The visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance; especially, the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- Fog: Condensed water vapor in the air at or near ground level.
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