superrotatev.
/ˌsuːpərə(ʊ)ˈteɪt/, /ˌsjuːpərə(ʊ)ˈteɪt/, U.S. /ˌsupərroʊˈteɪt/ Atmospheric Physics and Astronomy.
intransitive. Of an atmosphere: to rotate around a planet more quickly than the planet rotates about its axis; to exhibit superrotation.
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1973 D. G. King-Hele in Q. Jrnl. Royal Astron. Soc. 14 353 There is no reason to revise the general conclusion that the upper atmosphere is on average ‘super-rotating’.
1981 Sci. Amer. July 44/3 The atmosphere of Venus superrotates: at the cloud tops it moves more than 60 times as fast as the planet does.
1997 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 25 May z1 The atmosphere [of Earth], for instance, ‘superrotates’, moving as a whole somewhat faster than the planet it embraces.
2005 Icarus 201 176 Their solutions indicate that the entire atmosphere [of Titan] is superrotating.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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