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aerosphere

[ air-uh-sfeer ]

noun

Aeronautics.


aerosphere

/ ˈɛəəˌɪə /

noun

  1. archaic.
    the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of aerosphere1

First recorded in 1910–15; aero- + -sphere
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“They have figured out the aerosphere they live in,” Dr. Gill said.

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“The whole notion of the aerosphere and airspace as habitat is not something that has come into the collective psyche until recently,” Farnsworth says.

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One of these is in Angle's Airplane Engine Encyclopedia, published in 1921, and the other is in Aerosphere 1939, published in 1940.

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"So the whole concept of aeroecology is an integrated approach using many different tools to try to answer the questions about how organisms move and use the aerosphere."

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British expert G. Geoffrey Smith, whose authoritative work, Gas Turbines and, Jet Propulsion for Aircraft, will soon be published in the U.S. by Aerosphere, Inc., makes this distinction: a rocket carries its own combustion mixture, including oxygen; a jet-propulsion device has fuel but draws oxygen for combustion from the surrounding atmosphere.

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