WEATHER MAP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weather map mean? 

• WEATHER MAP (noun)
  The noun WEATHER MAP has 1 sense:

1. (meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region

  Familiarity information: WEATHER MAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEATHER MAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(meteorology) a map showing the principal meteorological elements at a given time and over an extended region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

weather chart; weather map

Hypernyms ("weather map" is a kind of...):

map (a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it))

Meronyms (parts of "weather map"):

isobar ((meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time)

isotherm ((meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time)

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "weather map"):

wind rose (weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions)