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Noun
/ˈkloudˌbərst/,
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cloudbursts, plural;
  1. A sudden, violent rainstorm

  1. downpour: a heavy rain
  2. A cloudburst is an extreme form of precipitation, sometimes with hail and thunder, which normally lasts no longer than a few minutes but is capable of creating flood conditions.
  3. Cloudburst is a 1951 British drama film, directed by Francis Searle, starring Robert Preston and featuring Elizabeth Sellars, Harold Lang, Colin Tapley and Sheila Burrell. ...
  4. Cloudburst is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series.
  5. Cloudburst is an Autobot Pretender in the Transformers toyline. He turns into a jet and has a shell that looked like an armored human. He shouldn't be confused with Phoenix, a Japanese Transformer who shares the same toy.
  6. Cloudburst is one of Eric Whitacre's most famous compositions. It dates from 1992, when the composer was only 22. It is written for eight part choir, accompanied by piano and percussion. The text is from Octavio Paz's poem El Cántaro Roto (The Broken Water-Jug), adapted by Whitacre.
  7. A sudden heavy rainstorm
  8. the heaviest type of rain, in which rain falls at a rate of 4 inches (10 centimeters) or more per hour.
  9. A torrential downpour of rain, which by its spottiness and relatively high intensity suggests the bursting and discharge of a whole cloud at once. (Woolley, 1946, p. ii.)
  10. what happens when your cloud has an outage or security breach and your data is unavailable.
  11. The dynamic deployment of a software application that runs on internal organizational compute resources to a public cloud to address a spike in demand. ...