Definitions
the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere
Word origin
From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
Used in a sentence
“Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).”
“Even if you’ve run an ironclad household budget and managed your retirement accounts on your own, you’re about to be at a level of wealth in a different stratosphere. It’s time to hire professionals.”
“So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere of the earth in contradistinction to the scoriosphere of the moon.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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