thermocline

English

Etymology

From thermo- +‎ -cline.

Noun

thermocline (plural thermoclines)

1. (geography) A layer within a body of water or air where the temperature changes rapidly with depth.
   • 2015 December 5, “Diel Vertical Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Thaliacea) in a Subtropical Stratified Ecosystem (South Brazilian Bight)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Even among migratory species, only a few (Aglaura hemistoma, Abylopsis tetragona eudoxids, Beroe sp., Thalia democratica, Salpa fusiformis) crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.

Related terms

• thermohalocline

Translations

layer in water

• Bulgarian: термокли́н m (termoklín)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斜温层, 斜溫層 / 斜温层

• Finnish: termokliini
• French: thermocline (fr) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: termoklin (no) m

  Nynorsk: termoklin m

• Russian: термокли́н (ru) m (termoklín)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

thermocline f (plural thermoclines)

1. (geography) thermocline

Further reading

• “thermocline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.