Meaning & use
Frontolysis
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In meteorology, the weakening or dissipation of a weather front as the temperature and density contrasts across it decrease.
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Forecasters predicted frontolysis would cause the storm system to lose much of its intensity by nightfall.
The cold front showed clear signs of frontolysis as it moved over the warmer coastal waters.
A note on using this word
"Frontolysis" is the direct opposite of "frontogenesis," the process by which a weather front strengthens or forms.
Words with an opposite meaning
frontogenesis
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