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Universe vs Stratosphere - What's the difference?

universe | stratosphere |

As nouns the difference between universe and stratosphere

is that universe is the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself; same as the Universe while stratosphere is collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.

As a proper noun Universe

is the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.

universe

English

Alternative forms

* Universe (dated or religious)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself; same as the Universe.
    • I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity .
  • An entity similar to our Universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
  • Everything under consideration.
    • In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
  • An imaginary collection of worlds.
    • The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
  • Intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting.
    • That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe .

    Derived terms

    * clockwork universe * known universe * observable universe * parallel universe * physical universe * universe of discourse

    Related terms

    * universal * universal set * university

    See also

    * om * (disambig) * (projectlink) * * ----

    stratosphere

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the (l)’s (l) which primarily (l) .
  • * 1908 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 3, chapter 1, page 2
    • So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere'' of the earth in contradistinction to the ''scoriosphere of the moon.
  • * 1909 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 4, chapter 15, page 546
    • The stratosphere , or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.
  • (meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10–15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere.
  • * 1909 , Scientific Abstracts , A., volume 12, page 208 (heading)
    • Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).

    External links

    * ("stratosphere" on Wikipedia)