C(harles) P(ercy) Baron Snow (1905-1980) English novelist and physicist. He held government scientific posts in World War II and 1964–66. His sequence of novels Strangers and Brothers 1940–64 portrayed English life from 1920 onward. His The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge Rede lecture 1959) discussed the absence of communication between literary and scientific intellectuals in the West, and added the phrase “the two cultures” to the language.

1. A layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground.
2. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals; SYN. snowfall.
Precipitation in the form of soft, white, crystalline flakes caused by the condensation in air of excess water vapor below freezing point. Light reflecting in the crystals, which have a basic hexagonal (six-sided) geometry, gives snow its white appearance.

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1. In television, temporary distortion of a displayed image caused by interference, usually in a weak signal, that takes the form of random white spots.
2. In computer displays, a specific type of distortion characterized by the blinking on and off of random pixels that occurs when the microprocessor and the display hardware interfere with each other by attempting to use the computer’s video memory at the same time.

1. To fall as snow
2. To whiten like snow