CLOUDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clouding mean? 

• CLOUDING (noun)
  The noun CLOUDING has 1 sense:

1. the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky

  Familiarity information: CLOUDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process whereby water particles become visible in the sky

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

clouding; clouding up

Hypernyms ("clouding" is a kind of...):

evaporation; vapor; vaporisation; vaporization; vapour (the process of becoming a vapor)

Derivation:

cloud (make overcast or cloudy)

 Context examples 

A cataract is a clouding of the lens in your eye.

(Cataract, NIH: National Eye Institute)

He informed me then, that for some time he had fancied the obscurity clouding one eye was becoming less dense; and that now he was sure of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Researchers say the love youngsters have for wildlife may be clouding the public's mind about how endangered those creatures are.

(Study: Popularity of Wildlife Can Harm Public's Perception, VOA)

Inflammatory intraocular reaction with clouding and cells in vitreous; often accompanies inflammation of ciliary body, iris, choroid, or retina.

(Hyalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The hunters were laughing at a fresh story of Smoke’s; the men pulling and hauling, and two of them climbing aloft; Wolf Larsen was studying the clouding sky to windward; and the dead man, dying obscenely, buried sordidly, and sinking down, down—

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)