Stratospheric

Quick meaning: Stratospheric is an adjective meaning (meteorology) Of, relating to, or occurring in the stratosphere (“the region of the uppermost atmosphere”).

Meaning

(meteorology) Of, relating to, or occurring in the stratosphere (“the region of the uppermost atmosphere”).

More Meanings

1. (figurative, colloquial) Unusually or unreasonably high; astronomical.

Example Sentences

The hotel charged stratospheric prices for a simple cooked breakfast.

Parmenides, we recall, denied the possibility of change because it seemed to involve a passage from non-being to being, from nothing to something. Discussed on this stratospheric level, his argument appears to be irrefutable.

The stratospheric temperatures in Saturn's atmosphere are generally lower than those found in Jupiter's, which might be expected from Saturn's increased distance from the Sun. However, the stratospheric temperatures of Uranus and Neptune are noticeably and puzzlingly different.

Because one can alter the entire climate with as little as 10,000 tons of super-efficient stratospheric scatters, an amount that could be lifted in a month by a single heavy lift stratospheric aircraft, there is extraordinary scope to develop new tools to allow more precise alteration of radiative forcing.

Antonyms for stratospheric

Common opposites include nonstratospheric.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include atmospheric, ozone, limited, depletion, impoverishment, stratal.

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