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Okta vs Oka - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between okta and oka

is that okta is one eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on) while oka is a unit of weight in the Ottoman Empire and certain successor states, equal to 400 dirhams. Variably equivalent to about 1.25 kilograms (2.75 pounds).

As a proper noun Oka is

a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga.

okta

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* octa

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (meteorology) One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
  • * 1960, American Meteorological Society, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts , American Meteorological Society, Page 480
  • *:...64% of the low- and 50% of the high-cloud amount differences were within ± 1 okta , although many of these successes (71% in the low-cloud amount) were for cases of totally clear or totally cloudy skies.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 426:
  • *:‘Fog is traditional for the season and cloud is anticipated at six to seven oktas , sir.’
  • * 1985, University of East Anglia, Geo Abstracts , University of East Anglia, Page 29
    • Mean cloud amount distributions are transformed to normal distributions. The accuracy of the method is indicated by the retrieval of the original distribution with a typical error of 14% in the frequency of each okta of cloud amount. - Author
  • * 2001, W.G. Rees, Physical Principles of Remote Sensing - Second Edition , Cambridge University Press, Page 100
    • For example, it has been estimated that a Landsat satellite, which revisits a particular location once every 16 days, will obtain a cloud-free scene of a particular location in Britain only once per year, and a scene with 1 okta' of cloud (an ' okta is one eighth of the sky obscured by cloud) only twice per year.

    oka

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of weight in the Ottoman Empire and certain successor states, equal to 400 dirhams. Variably equivalent to about 1.25 kilograms (2.75 pounds).
  • A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.

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