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mesosphere

/ˈmɛsəʊsfɪə//ˈmɛzoʊsfɪɚ/

mesosphere noun: the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere.

Noun

mesosphere (plural mesospheres)

  1. The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere.
    • The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching...2008, Kshudiram Saha, The Earth's Atmosphere: Its Physics and Dynamics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 102
  2. The lower mantle, a layer inside the Earth.

mesosphere meaning in Tamil, Gujarati and Malay

mesosphere in Tamil

நடு மண்டலம், இடை வளிமண்டலம்

mesosphere in Gujarati

mesosphere
મધ્યમંડળ madhyamaṇḍaḷ

mesosphere in Malay

layer of the Earth's atmosphere
mesosfera

Forms of mesosphere

pluralmesospheres

Origin of mesosphere

From meso- + -sphere.

Words formed from mesosphere

Questions about mesosphere

What does mesosphere mean?
Mesosphere means the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere.
What is mesosphere in Tamil?
Mesosphere in Tamil is நடு மண்டலம், இடை வளிமண்டலம். See Mesosphere meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mesosphere?
Mesosphere is a noun.
How do you pronounce mesosphere?
Mesosphere is pronounced /ˈmɛsəʊsfɪə/ (UK).
What is the plural of mesosphere?
The plural of mesosphere is mesospheres.

Words near mesosphere in the dictionary

  1. mesosonic
  2. mesosperm
  3. mesospermalege
  4. mesospermaleges
  5. mesosphenoid
  6. mesosphere
  7. mesospheres
  8. mesospheric
  9. mesospore
  10. mesospores
  11. mesostability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mesosphere (page history and authors); mesosphere (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મધ્યમંડળ (Gujarati) (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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