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heat wave definition

☆ heat wave

  1. unusually hot weather, resulting from a slowly moving air mass of relatively high temperature
  2. a period of such weather in a particular place

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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