"heat haze" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75",
          "text": "Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.",
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        {
          "ref": "1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165",
          "text": "Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.",
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        "A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed."
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          "shimmering",
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          "atmospheric"
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          "disturbance",
          "disturbance"
        ],
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          "current",
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          "warm",
          "warm"
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          "air",
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      "translations": [
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hitzeflimmern"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ceo bruithne"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かげろう, kagerō, ようえん, yōen",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
          "word": "陽炎"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heat haze"
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          "ref": "1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75",
          "text": "Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.",
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          "text": "Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.",
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      ],
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        "A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed."
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        ],
        [
          "observer",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hitzeflimmern"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ceo bruithne"
    },
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      "alt": "かげろう, kagerō, ようえん, yōen",
      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "a shimmering atmospheric disturbance",
      "word": "陽炎"
    }
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  "word": "heat haze"
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