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Meaning of termination shock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The boundary marking one of the outer limits of the Sun's influence, where the solar wind dramatically slows.
  2. That point for space around any star.
    broadly
  3. A rapid and damaging rise in temperatures once solar geoengineering measures are stopped.

Equivalents

Français choc terminal

Examples

“Studying the role of the termination shock and that of the heliosheath in cosmic ray modulation with numerical models has become most relevant since Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock on 16 December 2004 (e.g. Burlaga et al., 2005).”
“If a larger SRM deployment were phased out sufficiently slowly, the rate of warming could be limited, and termination shock avoided, even where it exerted a very large cooling effect.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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