thermosphere
/ˈθɜːməsfɪə/US/ˈθɝməsfɪɚ/
thermosphere noun: the layer of the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere.
Noun
thermosphere (plural thermospheres)
- The layer of the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere.
- 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
thermosphere meaning in Malayalam, Gujarati, Tagalog and Arabic
thermosphere in Malayalam
- താപമണ്ഡലം
thermosphere in Gujarati
- thermosphere
- ઉષ્ણમંડળ uṣṇamaṇḍaḷ
thermosphere in Tagalog
- layer of the Earth's atmosphere
- initbulog
thermosphere in Arabic
- layer of the Earth's atmosphere
- ثِيرْمُوسْفِير ṯīrmūsfīr
More languagesFewer languages
- thermosphere in Malay
- termosfera
- thermosphere in Indonesian
- termosfer
- thermosphere in Persian
- ترموسفر termôsfer
- thermosphere in Thai
- เทอร์โมสเฟียร์ termoh sàfia
- thermosphere in Vietnamese
- tầng nhiệt
Forms of thermosphere
| plural | thermospheres |
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Origin of thermosphere
From thermo- + -sphere.
Words formed from thermosphere
Questions about thermosphere
- What does thermosphere mean?
- Thermosphere means the layer of the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere.
- What is thermosphere in Malayalam?
- Thermosphere in Malayalam is താപമണ്ഡലം. See Thermosphere meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is thermosphere?
- Thermosphere is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thermosphere?
- Thermosphere is pronounced /ˈθɜːməsfɪə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of thermosphere?
- The plural of thermosphere is thermospheres.
Words near thermosphere in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thermosphere (page history and authors); thermosphere (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉષ્ણમંડળ (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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