snow line

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which the ground is covered with snow, at any particular time.
The inner limit where volatile molecules can remain frozen in the zone around a star.
The limit for water remaining solid instead of evaporating away under solar radiation.

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snow line snow lines snow-line

snow level frost line

habitable zone Venus zone

water snow line carbon monoxide snow line

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