stratosphere

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Synonyms for stratosphere

noun air

Antonyms for stratosphere

hell

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noun. air

Word Origin & History

1909, from French stratosphère, literally "sphere of layers," coined by French meteorologist Léon-Philippe Teisserenc de Bort (1855-1913) from Latin stratus "a spreading out" (from past participle stem of sternere "to spread out;" see structure (n.)) + French -sphère, as in atmosphère. The region where the temperature increases or remains steady as you go higher. [An earlier stratosphere, attested in English 1908 and coined in German 1901, was a geological term for part of the Earth's crust. It is now obsolete.]

Example Sentences for stratosphere

It took only one, fifty miles up in the stratosphere, to destroy all New York.

For Kress was to land right here when, and if, he had conquered the stratosphere.

This idea of denizens of the stratosphere has attacked the popular imagination.

What had been done to him by the—the denizens of the stratosphere?

Suppose you do encounter some intelligence in the stratosphere?

The surface of this stratosphere substance was slippery smooth.

They didn't wish to take a chance on stepping off into the stratosphere—and eternity.

He, of all the "lords of the stratosphere," seemed to possess endless courage.

They knew about where the stratosphere had swallowed up Jeter and Eyer.

Plainly it was the dwelling place of these strange conquerors of the stratosphere.

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