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Word entry · 12 letters

stratosphere

Best crossword clue

"High air layer"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeehoprrssttStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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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