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Definition of: tropopause
(trop′ə·pôz) noun Meteorol.
A transition zone in the atmosphere between the troposphere and the stratosphere at which the fall of temperature with increasing height abruptly ceases. [<TROPO(SPHERE) + Gk. pausis a ceasing]
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