The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.
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Global warming
an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
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The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thi…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a change in the world's climate
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data tra…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the su…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continen…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a change in the world's climate
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass throug…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Climate change.A gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.
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The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foresh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperatur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.Climatic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.Climatic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperatur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperatur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increase, average, temperature, earth, atmosphere.
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