ozone hole
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A region of the stratosphere over Antarctica (and a smaller one over the Arctic) that is depleted of ozone in the local spring.
Example Sentences
- "Callis says that the ozone hole now developing over the Antarctic is as deep as last year's hole, but seems to cover a smaller area."
- "When [Richard] Stolarski double-checked, he found that the depleted region covered all of Antarctica—and the “ozone hole” was born. It wasn't an instrument error. It was a real phenomenon."