Meaning

2 senses
  1. The uppermost layer of a planet's atmosphere

    Exosphäre

    экзосфе́раekzosféra

    екзосфераekzosfera

    the outermost atmospheric layer

  2. An extremely thin atmosphere, as on Saturn's moon Dione

    "Scientists weren't even sure Dione would be big enough to hang on to an exosphere" ('Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione', , JPL, Mar. 02, 2012)

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The exosphere is the outermost layer of our atmosphere.

  2. The thermosphere is located above the mesosphere and below the exosphere.

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  3. Air atoms and molecules are constantly escaping to space from the exosphere.

    deEs entweichen beständig Atome und Moleküle der Luft aus der Exosphäre in den Weltraum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

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Origin

From exo- + -sphere.

From exo- + -sphere.

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Forms

plural: exospheres
Singularexosphere
Pluralexospheres

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedexospheric

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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