barotropy

[buh-ro-truh-pee]

ba·rot·ro·py

[buh-ro-truh-pee]
noun Meteorology.
a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
Compare baroclinity.


Origin:
baro- + -tropy
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Barotropy is always a great word to know.
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a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front
the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds
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