STRATOSPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stratosphere mean? 

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

1. the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRATOSPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "stratosphere"):

ozone layer; ozonosphere (a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun)

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

atmosphere (the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body)

 Context examples 

Ozone plays a similar role in Earth’s atmosphere, where it causes inversion in the stratosphere.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)

Temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere are not the same at all latitudes.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)

A different condensation process takes place in the stratosphere — the region above the troposphere — at Titan's north and south winter poles.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system, or exoplanet.

(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)

The researchers looked at data collected for WASP-18b, located 325 light-years from Earth, as part of a survey to find exoplanets with stratospheres.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

In Titan’s stratosphere, a global circulation pattern sends a current of warm gases from the hemisphere where it’s summer to the winter pole.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

The wintry effects have led to a temperature drop of 72 degrees Farenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in the southern polar stratosphere over the last four years.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

This warm vortex sits hundreds of miles above the clouds, in the stratosphere, and reveals an unexpected surprise.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

The same thing happens at Jupiter, but the new observations show the heating goes two or three times deeper down into its atmosphere than on Earth, into the lower level of Jupiter's upper atmosphere, or stratosphere.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)

A stratosphere is a layer of atmosphere in which temperature increases with higher altitudes.

(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)