Stratosphere

Quick meaning: Stratosphere is a noun meaning (geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.

Meaning

(geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.

More Meanings

1. (meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone.

Example Sentences

Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).

The stratosphere, or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.

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.

Word Forms

• stratospheres

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include troposphere, atmosphere, stratigraphy, asthenosphere, aesthenosphere, crust.

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