Concept in Definition ABC

The forms that can be observed in the sky from the evaporation of water are known as clouds. Although water vapor is invisible, the clouds that are generated from it are not. A cloud is visible because the water vapor cools and later the small drops of water that form it condense.

Cloud types

Meteorologists classify cloud types based on their height and appearance. The highest clouds can be cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus. Those that are located at a medium height are Altocumulus and Altostratus. Those that present a lower altitude are the strata, the nimbostratus, the stratocumulus, the cumulus and the cumulonimbus.

Clouds as a symbolic element of language

In everyday language there are multiple references to clouds. Some of them have a positive meaning and others represent some unfavorable idea.

If we say that someone is like in a cloud, we communicate that he is very happy. On the contrary, if someone is very clueless and often lives away from reality, we will say that he is in the clouds.

Technological clouds: method that enhances resource management

In the field of computing there are clouds, a system of storage of information that allows data to be saved without the need to resort to a material support. On the other hand, when some toxic substances evaporate as a result of some industrial process, it is called a toxic cloud.

In the social field

The gentle side of the clouds is revealed in the children's game of looking for similarities between the shapes of the clouds and other realities. His dimension Menacing is highlighted in many popular sayings and sayings. Thus, in the saying "bricked sky, wet ground" is conveyed danger from rain imminent (in this case, the brick appearance of the clouds refers to the Altocumulus).

From the point of view of emotions, the sadness she is symbolized by gray clouds, while white clouds suggest happiness and harmony.

Nefele, the goddess of the clouds

In Greek mythology Nefele is the goddess of the clouds. This divinity married King Atamante for love, but his marriage it failed because a goddess and a human are incompatible for daily life. After the breakup, Nefele had to separate from her children, who, being human, could not go to heaven with her mother.

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