stratosphere

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere, where the ozone layer absorbs the sun's ultraviolet rays.

   Passenger jets often fly in the lower stratosphere to avoid bad weather.

From French stratosphère, a word coined by its discoverer, meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort. From strato- + -sphere.

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