Meaning

1 senses
  1. The lower levels of the atmosphere extending from the surface of the Earth or another celestial body up to the tropopause. It is characterized by convective air movements and a large vertical temperature change.

    Troposphäre

    тропосфе́раtroposféra

More definitions
  • the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude)

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The troposphere contains three-quarters of the mass of the entire atmosphere.

    deDie Troposphäre beinhaltet drei Viertel der Masse der gesamten Atmosphäre.

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  2. Up to 75 percent of the mass of the atmosphere is in the troposphere.

    ruДо 75% массы атмосферы сосредоточено в тропосфере.

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  3. Since most of the air is located closest to Earth’s surface, the troposphere is the densest layer of the atmosphere.

    deDa sich die meiste Luft in der unmittelbaren Nähe der Erdoberfläche befindet, so ist die Troposphäre die Schicht mit der größten Dichte in der Atmosphäre.

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  4. The troposphere is between 8 and 14 kilometers thick depending on where you are on Earth. It’s thinnest at the North and South Pole.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
lower levels of the atmosphere:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
lower levels of the atmosphere:

Origin

Borrowed from French troposphère. Equivalent to tropo- + -sphere.

Borrowed from French troposphère. Equivalent to tropo- + -sphere.

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Forms

plural: tropospheres
Singulartroposphere
Pluraltropospheres

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Word family

1 related words

See also

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