English
Etymology
Blend of condensation + trail.
Pronunciation
Noun
contrail (plural contrails)
- An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
- Synonyms: condensation trail, vapor trail, jet stream, cirrus aviaticus, cirrus tractus
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Translations
artificial cloud from jet aircraft
- Cherokee: ᎤᏔᏃᎸᏔᏅ (utanolvtanv)
- Czech: kondenzační stopa f
- Finnish: tiivistymisjuova, tiivistymisvana, jättövana
- French: traînée de condensation (fr) f, traînée de vapeur f, traînée blanche f
- German: Kondensstreifen (de) m
- Hungarian: kondenzcsík (hu)
- Icelandic: flugslóði m, flugvélarslóði m
- Italian: scia di condensazione f
- Japanese: 飛行機雲 (ja) (ひこうきぐも, hikōkigumo)
- Korean: 비행기구름 (bihaenggigureum)
- Malay: jejak wap, kontrail
- Polish: smuga kondensacyjna
- Russian: конденсационный след (kondensacionnyj sled)
- Spanish: estela de condensación f, estela condensada f, estela condensativa f, estela condensacional f
- Swedish: kondensationsstrimma c, k-strimma c
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Verb
contrail (third-person singular simple present contrails, present participle contrailing, simple past and past participle contrailed)
- (intransitive) To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.
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