Stratus vs Cumulus - What's the difference?
stratus | cumulus |
(meteorology) A principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated S t .
A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.
* 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in , The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
A mound or heap.
As nouns the difference between stratus and cumulus
is that stratus is a principal, low-level cloud type in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base, usually not associated with precipitation, and capable of producing corona phenomena and a weak, uniform luminance; abbreviated St while cumulus is a large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.stratus
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(cumuli)- Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli : a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.