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me•te•or•o•log•i•cal
(mē′tē ər ə loj′i kəl),USA pronunciation adj.
me′te•or•o•log′i•cal•y, adv.
- Meteorologypertaining to meteorology or to phenomena of the atmosphere or weather.
- Greek meteōrologik(ós) pertaining to celestial phenomena (see meteorology, -ic) + -al1
- 1560–70
'meteorological' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
- Howland Island
- National Weather Service
- SMS
- Synchronous Meteorological Satellite
- WMO
- Wrangel
- absolute
- acid precipitation
- almanac
- anomaly
- box
- forecast
- fronto-
- isabnormal
- isanomal
- isogradient
- isopleth
- kytoon
- lapse rate
- mesoscale
- met.
- meteor
- meteoric
- meteorogram
- meteorograph
- meteorol.
- meteorological satellite
- meteorology
- nimbus
- observatory
- pilot balloon
- pilot chart
- radiosonde
- rawinsonde
- signal corps
- sounding rocket
- synoptic
- synoptic chart
- up
- weather
- weather satellite
- weather ship
- weather station
- weatherman