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exoatmospheric

adj

Etymology

Blend of exoplanet + atmospheric.

  1. derived from ἀτμός — “steam”
  2. derived from atmosphaera
  3. borrowed from atmosphère
  4. formed as atmospheric — “atmosphere + -ic”
  5. prefixed as exoatmospheric — “exo + atmospheric”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere

  2. Abbreviation of exoplanetary atmospheric (“pertaining to the atmospheres of exoplanets”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exoatmospheric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA