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col

Pronunciation: /kɒl/

The English word “col” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
  2. A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.

Etymology

Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.

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