Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding the horizon.
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Examples
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Those wispy cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals, and the circumhorizontal arc is a large enough arc that the colors often cover the entire cloud.
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That’s a circumhorizontal arc; they are formed by light refracting in a certain way through ice crystals shaped like horizontally oriented hexagonal plates if conditions are right, they’ll orient themselves that way as they fall through the air.
vanishedone commented on the word circumhorizontal
A.P.O.D.: '...circumhorizontal arcs are quite unusual to see. This circumhorizon display was photographed...'
May 13, 2009