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towering
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towering [′tau̇·ə·riŋ]
(meteorology)
A refraction phenomenon; a special case of looming in which the downward curvature of the light rays due to atmospheric refraction increases with elevation so that the visual image of a distant object appears to be stretched in the vertical direction.
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