Definition of "cooling" []

• Present participle of cool. (verb)
• A decrease in temperature (noun)
• Refrigeration (noun)
• That cools (adjective)

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• "The nutballs who crow that any cooling anywhere overturns entirely the blame placed on AGW for climate change, both need to take a beginners course in statistics and probability, and need to consider the current AGW-masked _cooling cycle_, which, if it didn't erupt somewhere occasionally, would be behaving very strangely indeed. xanthian."
• "CLANCY: For instance in St. Louis, Missouri, city workers going door to door here encouraging people to seek comfort at various what they call cooling centers."
• "And usually what we see is the perpetrator strikes out, and then there ` s what we call a cooling-off period, and then they strike out again."