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Osmometer
Weather; Meteorology
A device for measuring soil water amounts, especially under roads; seldom used.
Oscillation
Weather; Meteorology
1. A swinging, as of a pendulum. Often applied to periodic motion or variation in time of any quantity, although may mean any more or less regular variation between fixed bounds. Fluctuation is more ...
Orbital motion
Weather; Meteorology
In hydrodynamics, the motion of a fluid particle induced by the passage of a progressive gravity wave. When the wave height is small and the fluid depth is great, the orbit is a circle the radius of ...
Orbital velocity
Weather; Meteorology
As an ocean wave propagates, the water itself moves in an approximately circular motion (in deep water), with the amplitude of the motion decaying with depth below the sea surface. The velocity ...
Ordinary cell
Weather; Meteorology
The most basic component of a convective storm, consisting of a single main updraft that is usually quickly replaced by a downdraft once precipitation begins. Ordinary cells are especially observed ...
Ordinate
Weather; Meteorology
The vertical coordinate in a two-dimensional system of rectangular Cartesian coordinates; usually denoted by ''y''. Also, the vertical axis of any graph. See abscissa.
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