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frontolysis

(frun täl′ə sis; also frän-)

noun

the process that tends to destroy a weather front, as by mixture of the frontal air

Origin: ModL < fronto- + -lysis

See frontolysis in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. fron·tol·y·ses (-sēzˌ)

Dissipation of a meteorological front.

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