exosphere

See also: exosphère

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ -sphere.

Pronunciation

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Noun

exosphere (plural exospheres)

1. the uppermost layer of a planet's atmosphere
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', (Can we date this quote by Cassini Solstice Mission and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), JPL, Mar. 02, 2012)

Derived terms

• exospheric

Translations

the uppermost layer of a planet's atmosphere

• Albanian: egzosfera f
• Armenian: էկզոսֆերա (ēkzosfera)
• Azerbaijani: ekzosfer
• Basque: exosfera (eu)
• Belarusian: экзасфера f (ekzasfjera)
• Catalan: exosfera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 散逸層 / 散逸层 (sànyìcéng), 外氣層 / 外气层 (wàiqìcéng)

• Czech: exosféra (cs) f
• Danish: exosfære c
• Dutch: exosfeer (nl) m
• Esperanto: eksosfero
• Estonian: eksosfäär f
• Finnish: eksosfääri (fi)
• French: exosphère (fr) f
• Galician: exosfera (gl) f
• Georgian: ეგზოსფერო (egzospero)
• German: Exosphäre f
• Greek: εξώσφαιρα (el) (exósfaira)
• Haitian Creole: egzosfè
• Hungarian: exoszféra (hu)
• Icelandic: úthvolf n
• Indonesian: eksosfer (id)
• Irish: eisisféar m
• Italian: esosfera (it) f
• Japanese: 外気圏 (ja) (がいきけん, gaikiken)
• Kazakh: экзосфера (ékzosfera)
• Kyrgyz: экзосфера (ekzosfera)
• Latvian: eksosfēra f
• Lithuanian: egzosfera f
• Malay: eksosfera
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksosfære m

  Nynorsk: eksosfære m

• Occitan: exosfèra f
• Persian: اگزوسفر (egzosfer)
• Polish: egzosfera (pl) f
• Portuguese: exosfera f
• Romanian: exosferă (ro) f
• Russian: экзосфе́ра (ru) f (ekzosféra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: егзосфера f

  Roman: egzosfera (sh) f

• Slovak: exosféra f
• Slovene: eksosfera (sl) f
• Spanish: exosfera f
• Swedish: exosfär c
• Turkish: ekzosfer
• Turkmen: ekzosfera
• Ukrainian: екзосфера f (ekzosfera)
• Vietnamese: tầng ngoài