termination shock
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The boundary marking one of the outer limits of the Sun's influence, where the solar wind dramatically slows.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A rapid and damaging rise in temperatures once solar geoengineering measures are stopped.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."