English Explanatory Dictionary

turbopause

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The altitude in the Earth's atmosphere below which turbulent mixing dominates, at about 60 miles or 100 km, which separates the heterosphere from the homosphere.

Word forms

turbopause turbopauses

Etymology

From turbo- + -pause.

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