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harmattan

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for harmattan.

Editorial note

Also, Jolla seem to have built their new UI along similar lines to Harmattan (button-less, reliance on slide-from-edges etc).

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Quick take

A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of harmattan gathered in one view.

noun

A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

noun

A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for harmattan.

noun

A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

noun

A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.

Example sentences

1

Also, Jolla seem to have built their new UI along similar lines to Harmattan (button-less, reliance on slide-from-edges etc).

2

It should appeal to the people who were buying Nokia's Harmattan and Meego devices.

3

Also, Meego Harmattan (released with the N9) got pretty stellar reviews all round.

4

I've had platforms I loved killed twice for want of competent management: webOS and MeeGo (mainly in its harmattan avatar).

5

> Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully.

6

Actually more like MeeGo Harmattan + BB10.

7

Wider success depends on shipping a great product, but it also depends on how much people who liked the Nokia Harmattan and Meego OS smartphones know that Jolla is the successor to those products.

8

Apologies, but Harmattan (aka Maemo 6 aka ‘MeeGo Instance’) is still my favourite mobile OS, and even though it was released in 2010 it still easily keeps up with the standard stuff on Android, iOS and Windows Phone (no voice recognition à la Siri, though).

9

I haven't tried the game yet but at first sight, it seems to be heavily inspired by Meego Harmattan / Symbian Belle - a beautifully designed UI (at least in its Meego implementation) that unfortunately never went anywhere due to Nokia killing both Meego and Symbian before it was even released.

Proper noun examples

1

Harmattan had some backported compatibility pieces to make it nominally Meego compliant, but it was really Maemo 6.

2

Only then did they stop playing politics long enough to build and ship something amazing (Harmattan on the N9).

3

N9 'meego' was Harmattan, the direct descendant of Maemo 5, planned before the link-up with Intel to create Meego 'proper'.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use harmattan in a sentence?

Also, Jolla seem to have built their new UI along similar lines to Harmattan (button-less, reliance on slide-from-edges etc).

What does harmattan mean?

A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

What part of speech is harmattan?

harmattan is commonly used as noun.