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greenhouse effects

greenhouse effects is the plural of greenhouse effect.

Meaning of greenhouse effect

Noun

greenhouse effect (plural greenhouse effects)

  1. (climate change) The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
    • Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface.1901, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, “On the Variations of the Climate of the Geological and Historical Past and their Causes”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume XXVII, number...
    Synonyms:
    hothouse effect

Questions about greenhouse effects

What is greenhouse effects the plural of?
Greenhouse effects is the plural of greenhouse effect.

Words near greenhouse effects in the dictionary

  1. greenhouse bug
  2. greenhouse bugs
  3. greenhouse cockpit
  4. greenhouse cockpits
  5. greenhouse effect
  6. greenhouse effects
  7. greenhouse gas
  8. greenhouse gases
  9. greenhouse gasses
  10. greenhouse slug
  11. greenhouse slugs

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