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tachocline

/ta.ko.klaɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tachocline
IPA
/ta.ko.klaɪn/
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A region of abrupt transition from rotation to convection in the interior of the sun.

Etymology

From tacho- + -cline; coined in a paper by Edward A. Spiegel and Jean-Paul Zahn in 1992 (Spiegel, E. A.; & Zahn, J.-P.; "The solar tachocline", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 265, 106–114, 1992) by analogy to the oceanic thermocline.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

tachoclines (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce tachocline?
The recorded pronunciation is /ta.ko.klaɪn/.
What does tachocline mean?
A region of abrupt transition from rotation to convection in the interior of the sun.
Where does tachocline come from?
From tacho- + -cline; coined in a paper by Edward A. Spiegel and Jean-Paul Zahn in 1992 (Spiegel, E. A.; & Zahn, J.-P.; "The solar tachocline", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 265, 106–114, 1992) by analogy to the oceanic thermocline.

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