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KENNELLY-HEAVISIDE LAYER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length
Synonyms:
E layer; E region; Heaviside layer; Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Holonyms ("Kennelly-Heaviside layer" is a part of...):
ionosphere (the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons)