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turbopause

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English

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Etymology

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From turbo- +‎ -pause.

Noun

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turbopause (plural turbopauses)

  1. (meteorology) The altitude in the Earth's atmosphere below which turbulent mixing dominates, at about 60 miles or 100 km, which separates the heterosphere from the homosphere.

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