Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect
The overall warming of the earth's lower atmosphere. It occurs when carbon dioxide and water vapor, which initially permit the sun's rays to heat the earth, then trap the heat near the earth's surface.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Weather
- Category: General weather
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Accounting Category: Tax
Christmas tree tax
A 15-cent levy on each Christmas tree sold in the United States, announced on Tuesday 8 November in the Federal Register. The levy, which was to ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
farooq92
0
Terms
47
Blossaries
3
Followers
Famous and Most Dangerous Volcanos
Category: Geography 1 5 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Skin care(179)
- Cosmetic surgery(114)
- Hair style(61)
- Breast implant(58)
- Cosmetic products(5)
Beauty(417) Terms
- Gardening(1753)
- Outdoor decorations(23)
- Patio & lawn(6)
- Gardening devices(6)
- BBQ(1)
- Gardening supplies(1)
Garden(1790) Terms
- General law(5868)
- Courts(823)
- Patent & trademark(449)
- DNA forensics(434)
- Family law(220)
- Legal aid (criminal)(82)
Legal services(8095) Terms
- World history(1480)
- Israeli history(1427)
- American history(1149)
- Medieval(467)
- Nazi Germany(442)
- Egyptian history(242)
History(6037) Terms
- Dating(35)
- Romantic love(13)
- Platonic love(2)
- Family love(1)