Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or coming from the south.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Southern; lying in or pertaining to the south: as, austral lands; the austral signs of the zodiac.
- [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the great group of islands in the southern hemisphere of which New Zealand, Tasmania, and the continental island of Australia are the chief; Australasian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Southern; lying or being in the south
- adjective (Biogeography) Designating, or pertaining to, a zone extending across North America between the Transition and Tropical zones, and including most of the United States and central Mexico except the mountainous parts.
- adjective (Astron.) the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or coming from the
south . - noun A former
currency ofArgentina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the south or coming from the south
- noun the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sometimes the season name was used sometimes it was prefaced by 'austral' with result that I was unsure which season was being referred to.
RealClimate 2009
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It is winter in LA, which is the austral summer below the 60th parallel south.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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It is winter in LA, which is the austral summer below the 60th parallel south.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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The FOK (Friends of Kirchner -- the austral equivalent to good old Friends of Bill, or Friends of Bush) control everything, with a special mention to Jorge Fernandez Campbell, owner of the sole monopoly exploiting the ultra-profitable navigation around the spectacular glaciers in Lago Argentino, the largest mass of continental ice in the world.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010
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Same in more austral Patagonia, in Calafate, Santa Cruz province, an historic crossroads for selling cattle and sheep, a magnet for dodgy adventurers in search of limitless estancias, and today a boutique pueblo with a totally dollarized economy.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010
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De Gama caught the austral westerlies to hurl him past Africa; the Voyagers were boosted gravitationally as they sailed from planet to planet.
Review of "Voyager," a book about the space probes, by Stephen J. Pyne Marcia Bartusiak 2010
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Then came the Iberian navigators, the English pirates, the all-European science buffs, the religious missionaries, the exiles who dreamed of making it in America, the austral version.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010
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As Argentina is a country of immigrants -- a sort of austral Europe -- foreign ownership may not be such a problem per se; the question is how the land should be used or developed.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale 2010
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The difference between the perihelion and aphelion distances is about 3%, and therefore extraterrestrial irradiance is about 7% higher during the austral (Southern Hemisphere) summer than it is during the boreal (Northern Hemisphere) summer.
Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic 2009
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Because of the high risks associated with volcanic eruptions, there is no permanent human presence on the island, but the hot springs make it an increasingly popular tourist stop during the austral summer.
Deception Island 2009
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