the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude)
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Stratosphere
the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere
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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…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.the weather or climate at some place; "the atmosphere was thick with fog"
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided,…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any ot…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "t…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This cent…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularl…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.Reign.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produce…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Geography, Atmosphere and climate.The state or quality of being cold.
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(meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the ba…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.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: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.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: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: atmospheric, layer, troposphere, mesosphere.
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