- mesoscale
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adjective
Date: 1956
of intermediate size; especially of or relating to a meteorological phenomenon approximately 10 to 1000 kilometers in horizontal extent <mesoscale cloud pattern>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
mesoscale
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