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語源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταιβατός (kataibatós, “down-going, descending”), from κατα- (kata-, “down”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

発音

• IPA: /kæt.əˈbæt.ɪk/
• 韻: -ætɪk

形容詞

katabatic (not comparable)

1. (meteorology, of airflow) Downslope on a mountainside.
   • 2005, Nicholas Johnson, chapter 3, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN:

     At the field camp, paper-thin tents shudder beneath katabatic blasts of freezing wind, stoves sputter a stingy flame, and a few trudging specks haul shovels through a cold world where extra food and equipment cannot be bought at any price.

   • 2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 6 April 2023:

     Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still.

反意語

• anabatic

派生語

名詞

katabatic (plural katabatics)

1. Ellipsis of katabatic wind.

Further reading

• katabatic wind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia