CHROMOSPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chromosphere mean? 

• CHROMOSPHERE (noun)
  The noun CHROMOSPHERE has 1 sense:

1. a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun

  Familiarity information: CHROMOSPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHROMOSPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("chromosphere" is a kind of...):

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Holonyms ("chromosphere" is a part of...):

Sun (the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system)

 Context examples 

Neutral particles provide the buoyancy the gnarled knots of magnetic energy need to rise through the sun’s boiling plasma and reach the chromosphere.

(Scientists Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules, NASA)