fractus

Observing fractus gives an indication of wind movements under the parent cloud.

Mirosternus fractus is a beetle species in the family Anobiidae.

Fractus have irregular patterns, appearing much like torn pieces of cotton candy.

By the time they crossed the coastline the cumulus fractus was below them, but only by an arm's reach.

In addition to forming in inflow, fractus also form in outflow.

Fractonimbus are a form of stratus fractus, developing under precipitation clouds due to turbulent air movement.

This library also houses a remarkable collection of so-called cantus fractus, or rhythmicized chant, which has recently been published.

Cumulus fractus clouds actually look like ragged cumulus clouds.

Cumulus fractus in particular form on the leading and trailing edges of summer storms in warm and humid conditions.

Mandelbrot used the term "fractal" as it derived from the Latin word "fractus", defined as broken or shattered glass.

It could be fractonym, using the coined combining form fracto- (from the Latin fractus, the past participle of frangire meaning to break).

The rotor may generate cumulus or cumulus fractus in its upwelling portion, also known as a "roll cloud".

Stratocumulus fractus are fragmented strands of stratocumulus often seen between larger stratocumuli in a perculidus sheet.

Low stratus is also of the species nebulosus except when broken up into ragged sheets of stratus fractus.

Dispersal of this hail is largely dependent upon the fractus of the skies, the local coriolis of the earth, and hygroscopic particulate.

The word derives from the past participle fractus ("broken") of Latin frangere ("to break"); the same root as the English word 'fracture'.

The word fractal was made by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 from the Latin word fractus, which means "broken" or "fractured".

"Pontefract" originates from the Latin for "broken bridge", formed of the elements pons ('bridge') and fractus ('broken').

The Eastern Crested Toad (Bufo fractus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family.

Nimbostreatus fractus is a variation of nimbostratus and will sometimes occur as a weather front clears, these being areas of dark rain bearing clouds with lighter altostratus between.

Cumulus fractus (also called scud) and cumulus pannus are shredded forms of cumulus clouds that normally appear beneath the parent cloud during precipitation.

If irregular, they fall in the pluralis fractus category, in which a word is pluralized by internal vowel changes: ktieb, kotba "books", raġel, irġiel "man", "men".

The two principal forms are cumulus fractus (formerly, fractocumulus) and stratus fractus (formerly, fractostratus).

Stratus fractus is distinguishable from cumulus fractus by its smaller vertical extent, darker color, and by the greater dispersion of its particles.

The name fracta was chosen by Prout in 1918 and is apparently taken from the Latin fractus (meaning broken) and probably refers to the orange-yellow forewing cross band which is incomplete.