aerospheren.
/ˈɛːrə(ʊ)sfɪə/, U.S. /ˈɛroʊˌsfɪ(ə)r/, /ˈɛrəˌsfɪ(ə)r/ rare.
The body of air that surrounds the earth; the atmosphere.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > [noun] > of earth
atmosphere1677
aerosphere1799
inner space1958
1799 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. II. 150 For it may be very well assumed that our sea of air (aerosphere), which is at present above the surface of the earth, was formerly mixed in a chaos with the other material substances of the mundane mass.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Aerosphere, same as Atmosphere.
1901 Geogr. Jrnl. 17 296 Geography is the science of the Earth in its threefold composition of lithosphere, hydrosphere, and aërosphere.
1912 C. M. Doughty Clouds 121 And signals winged, of mens sollicitudes, From the large compass of the aerosphere Continually were received.
1991 Proc. Amer. Philos. Assoc. 65 69 I recall Robinson..talking about his experience in the navy having caused him to think in terms of the trichotomy ‘terrasphere, aquasphere, and aerosphere’.
2005 Physical Rev. Lett. 94 150501-1 The distribution distance of entangled photon pairs achieved in the experiment is for the first time well beyond the effective thickness of the aerosphere, hence presenting a significant step towards satellite-based global quantum communication.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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