stratosphere

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  1. noun The region of the atmosphere above the troposphere and below the mesosphere.
  2. noun An extremely high or the highest point or degree on a ranked scale: business expenses in the stratosphere.

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  • You can dive into the stratosphere, and precisely dissipate that velocity, and come back out to the space station. —  Bill Stone explores the world's deepest caves
  • Published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and led by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this remarkable study shows how the number of high-energy cosmic-rays reaching a detector deep underground, closely matches temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere (known as the stratosphere). —  Signs of the Times
  • Add more small reflecting particles in the upper part of the atmosphere (the stratosphere which is located between 15 and 50 kilometers above the Earth's surface). —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
  • Introducing aerosols into the stratosphere is also probably a good idea. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Led by scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), this study shows how the number of high-energy cosmic-rays reaching a detector deep underground, closely matches temperature measurements in the upper atmosphere, known as the stratosphere. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
 

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  1. French stratosphère : Latin strātus, a spreading out; see stratus + -sphère, sphere (from Old French espere; see sphere).
 

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