near space (English, noun)
expansion: near space (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The region of the atmosphere between the Armstrong limit (above which atmospheric pressure is sufficiently low that water boils at the normal temperature of the human body) and the Kármán line (one boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space); the region of the atmosphere near space.
tags: uncountable
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
tags: uncountable
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of the Earth's (or another planet's) atmosphere or exosphere which is near outer space:
The region of the exosphere between the lower bound of space and the lower bound of orbit; the region of space near the Earth.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: near-space
tags: alternative
form: nearspace
tags: alternative