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| mirage |
an optical effect, often occurring in the desert or on hot pavement, in which light distorted by air masses of different temperatures creates the illusion of water and sometimes inverts distant objects. [1/2 definitions] |
| tropical maritime |
a warm, wet air mass originating over tropical oceans. |
| vibration |
in physics, the rapid motion of a particle or elastic substance around an equilibrium position when its equilibrium has been disturbed, or a similar movement of the particles of an air mass or the like, as in sound transmission. [1/4 definitions] |
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