Climate (disambiguation)

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The term climate may refer to:

  • Climate - refers to the weather of a region according to periodic norms.
  • Clime, a notion of dividing the Earth into zones in Classical Antiquity based on their inclination or latitude.
  • a tympan or climate, an interchangeable part of an astrolabe, corresponding to each clime.

In sociology and politics, the term "climate" is used in reference to a concept of aggregate mood within a society, by analogy to weather and temperature :