intercloud

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ cloud.

Verb

intercloud (third-person singular simple present interclouds, present participle interclouding, simple past and past participle interclouded)

  1. (transitive) To shut within clouds.

Adjective

intercloud (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) Between clouds of stars.
    • 1977, American Geophysical Union, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, volume 15:
      As the sun moves in its path through the galaxy, it will not always be immersed in the tenuous intercloud region of the interstellar medium.

Noun

intercloud (plural interclouds)

  1. (computing) An interconnected set of clouds, in cloud computing.
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