"dry fog" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dry fogs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dry fog (plural dry fogs)
  1. A fog or haze made up of dust or smoke particles, which consequently does not moisten exposed surfaces. Categories (topical): Weather
    Sense id: en-dry_fog-en-noun-FonDzFX1 Disambiguation of Weather: 76 24
  2. A fog of liquid droplets, occurring when the humidity or dew point would not normally allow fog, due to the droplets consisting of or being coated in an oil that prevents them from evaporating.
    Sense id: en-dry_fog-en-noun-uuYKYGeq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 27 73 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: qobar (english: a dry fog, chiefly of the Upper Nile) Related terms: dry haze, smog and various related phenomena listed there, German Höhenrauch

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