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ˌnɒk təˈlu səntnoc·tilu·cent
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noctilucentadjective
shining or glowing by night
"the noctilucent eyes of a cat"
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noctilucentadjective
Shining or glowing at night, especially of very high-altitude clouds that reflect sunlight long after sunset.
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noctilucent
Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. When viewed from space, they are called polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), detectable as a diffuse scattering layer of water ice crystals near the summer polar mesopause. They consist of ice crystals and from the ground are only visible during astronomical twilight. Noctilucent roughly means "night shining" in Latin. They are most often observed during the summer months from latitudes between ±50° and ±70°. Too faint to be seen in daylight, they are visible only when the observer and the lower layers of the atmosphere are in Earth's shadow, but while these very high clouds are still in sunlight. Recent studies suggest that increased atmospheric methane emissions produce additional water vapor once the methane molecules reach the mesosphere – creating, or reinforcing existing noctilucent clouds.They are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 76 to 85 km (249,000 to 279,000 ft).
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noctilucent
Noctilucent refers to visible phenomena in the night sky that have a glowing or luminescent quality. It is most commonly used in terms, such as "noctilucent clouds", which are thin clouds occurring high above the earth's surface and visible primarily during twilight. The term comes from Latin words, nocti meaning 'night' and lucere meaning 'to shine'.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of noctilucent in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of noctilucent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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