occluded front

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   (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft

   Synonymsocclusion

   Broaderfront

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Questions about occluded front

What does occluded front mean?

occluded front means "(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft".

What is another word for occluded front?

Close synonyms include occlusion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is occluded front a common word?

occluded front is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.