stratosphere
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stratosphere
- /ˈstɹætəsfɪə/ UK
- /ˈstɹætəsfɪɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
noun stratospheres
- The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).
- Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits. So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere of the earth in contradistinction to the scoriosphere of the moon.
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noun region of the uppermost atmosphere
| Español | estratosfera |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 성층권 seongcheunggwon |
| 日本語 | 成層圏 seisōken |
| 中文 | 平流層 /平流层 píngliúcéng |
| Português | estratosfera |
| Français | stratosphère |
| Deutsch | Stratosphäre |
| Italiano | stratosfera |
| Ελληνικά | στρατόσφαιρα stratósfaira |
| Русский | стратосфе́ра stratosféra |
| Tiếng Việt | tầng bình lưu, tầng tĩnh khí |
| العربية | سْتْرَاتُوسْفِير strātūsfīr |
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title = {stratosphere},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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