English Dictionary

cumulus

/ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/

noun

A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds. / A mound or heap.

The cumulus clouds floated across the sky.

意味（1）

A large white puffy cloud that develops through convection. On a hot, humid day, they can form towers and even become cumulonimbus clouds.

Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.

意味（2）

A mound or heap.