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- French · derived fromstratosphère
- English todaystratosphere
From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stratosphere
Today it means: The region of the uppermost atmosphere where the temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. Full definition →
French stratosphère