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härmä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • frost noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.

Senses

härmä is used for these senses in English:

  • frost A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  • hoar frost (specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.

frost — full definition

  1. noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
  2. noun Freezing weather cold enough to produce this layer of ice.
  3. verb To cover a cake or other baked good with icing.
  4. verb To become covered with a thin layer of ice.

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