stratosphere
Meanings
noun
- The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.
- Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.
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Etymology
From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
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