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Karman line

Karman line is the alternative form of Kármán line.

Meaning of Kármán line

Noun

Kármán line

  1. The altitude at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to support aerodynamic flight.
    • As well as being important for aircraft and spacecraft, the Kármán line is useful for lawyers—the laws that govern space are not the same as the laws that govern Earth's atmosphere!2020, Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking, Unlocking the Universe, Penguin UK, →ISBN

Questions about Karman line

What is Karman line the alternative form of?
Karman line is the alternative form of Kármán line.

Words near Karman line in the dictionary

  1. karmaless
  2. karmalessness
  3. Karmaling
  4. Karman
  5. Karman Limit
  6. Karman line
  7. Karman street
  8. Karman streets
  9. Karman vortex street
  10. Karman vortex streets
  11. Karmans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Karman line (page history and authors); Kármán line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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