ADVECT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they advect ... he / she / it advects

Past simple: advected

Past participle: advected

-ing form: advecting

Meaning:

Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid

Example:

energy advected from the environment

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "advect" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

advection ((meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties)

advective (of or relating to advection)