ionosphere
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ionosphere
n 1: the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high
concentration of free electrons
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ionosphere \ionosphere\ n.
the outer region of the earth's atmosphere, beyond which is
the {exosphere}; it contains a high concentration of free
electrons and ions, and extends from about 50 miles to about
250 miles above the earth's surface, but the height shows
daily and seasonal variation, and the composition of the
particles in the ionosphere is also affected by events such
as solar flares.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "ionosphere":
Appleton layer, CAT, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer,
Van Allen belt, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket,
airspace, belt, bump, ceiling, chemosphere, crosswind, empty space,
favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, high-pressure area, hole,
isothermal region, jetstream, layer, low-pressure area,
lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere, overcast, photosphere, pocket,
roughness, soup, space, stratosphere, stratum, substratosphere,
tail wind, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence,
upper atmosphere, visibility, visibility zero
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