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okta

/ˈɒktə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. One eighth of the total area of the celestial dome; used as a measure of cloudiness (one okta means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two oktas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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