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Definition of Arid

Arid
Arid Ar"id, a. [L. aridus, fr. arere to be dry: cf. F. aride.] Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. ``An arid waste.' --Thomson.

Meaning of Arid from wikipedia

- Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant...
- A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential...
- In software engineering, active reviews for intermediate designs (ARID) is a method to evaluate software architectures, especially on an intermediate level...
- life-promoting moisture". Aridity is different from drought because aridity is permanent whereas drought is temporary. A number of aridity indices have been proposed...
- The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation...
- Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi (PMAS-Arid University) is in Rawalpindi, Punjab, ****stan. It is named after Pir Meher Ali Shah...
- USS Arided (AK-73), a Crater-class cargo ship, is the only ship of the US Navy to have this name. She was named after Arided, the other name of Deneb,...
- The Arid Diagonal (Spanish: diagonal árida/arreica) is a contiguous zone of arid and semi-arid climate that traverses South America from coastal Peru in...
- Al-Arid (Arabic: العريض) is a Syrian hamlet located in the Mahardah Subdistrict of the Mahardah District in Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central...
- to denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the Earth is arid or semi-arid. This includes much of the polar regions, where little precipitation...