English Explanatory Dictionary

global dimming

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A worldwide decline, during the last few decades, of the intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface, caused by particulate air pollution.

Word forms

global dimming

Etymology

From global + dimming, modelled on global warming.

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