How to pronounce troposphere
American English pronunciation
TROH-puh-sfeer
- IPA
- /ˈtɹoʊpəsfɪɹ/
- Syllables
- TROH · puh · sfeer (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
- Also said
- TRAH-puh-sfeer
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What troposphere means
The lowest layer of air around Earth, where weather happens
In a sentence: Almost every cloud you see floats in the troposphere, close to the ground.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from French, made of tropo-, from a Greek word for turning, and sphere.
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