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TROPOPAUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tropopause mean?
• TROPOPAUSE (noun)
The noun TROPOPAUSE has 1 sense:
1. the region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere
Familiarity information: TROPOPAUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("tropopause" is a kind of...):
layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)
Holonyms ("tropopause" is a part of...):
troposphere (the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude))
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