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contrail

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

noun

  1. An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

verb

  1. To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.

Etymology

Blend of condensation + trail.

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