stratospheric

CEFRB2

/ˌstɹætəˈsfɛɹɪk/

adjective

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adjective
Related to the stratosphere or extremely high.
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adjective
Extra detail
Unusually or unreasonably high; astronomical.

Examples

High winds caused the aircraft to reach stratospheric altitudes.
Stratospheric means relating to the second layer of atmosphere.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/-fɪ-/

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adjective

Extra meaning

Of, relating to, or occurring in the stratosphere (“the region of the uppermost atmosphere”).

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The plane flew at a very high and mostly stratospheric altitude.
The hotel charged stratospheric prices for a simple cooked breakfast.
Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan [title]

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Stratospheric fighting brings a new dimension to warfare, taking it into the realm of the fantastic—like an Orson Wells^([sic – meaning Orson Welles]) drama in which cities are bombed from the stratosphere beyond reach of anti-aircraft fire and barrage balloon and in relative safety from enemy pursuit ships.
1941 December, Don M. Paul, “Modern Men of Mars!”, in Will Lane, editor, Minicam Photography, volume 5, number 4, Cincinnati, Oh.: Automobile Digest Publishing Corp., →OCLC, page 16, column 1
This new pen operates on the principle of capillary attraction. It writes with greater ease than the smoothest lead pencil; writes on cloth or paper submerged in water or in an airplane at the ceiling of stratospheric air travel without leaking; writes on glossy paper, soft paper, blotting paper, or cloth without spreading.
1945 August, “New Products and Processes”, in Orson D[esaix] Munn, editor, Scientific American, volume 173, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 114, column 3
During the World War he [Jean Piccard] became professor of organic chemistry at Chicago, but later he changed his field. The famous stratospheric flights of his brother Auguste [Piccard]—they are very similar twins and their voices on the radio indistinguishable—caused him to turn to aeronautics and to take on a professorship in aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
1965 March 25, Richard Willstätter, “Professorship at Zurich”, in Lilli S[chwenk] Hornig, transl., From My Life: The Memoirs of Richard Willstätter […], New York, N.Y.; Amsterdam: W. A. Cummings, →OCLC, page 201
Halocarbons (which include CFCs [chlorofluorocarbons] and halons) are potent stratospheric ozone depleters as well as greenhouse gases. Concern over their role as a threat to the ozone layer led in September 1987 to "The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer" (or the Montreal Protocol).
1990 December, “Technological Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions”, in Daniel A. Lashof, Dennis A. Tirpak, editors, Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate: Report to Congress (21P-2003.1), Washington, D.C.: Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, United States Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page 34, column 2
Because one can alter the entire climate with as little as 10,000 tons of super-efficient stratospheric scatters, an amount that could be lifted in a month by a single heavy lift stratospheric aircraft, there is extraordinary scope to develop new tools to allow more precise alteration of radiative forcing.
2013, David Keith, “Technology and Design”, in A Case for Climate Engineering (A Boston Review Book), Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 109–110

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Origin

adjective

From stratosphere + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns).

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The company's blank profits amazed everyone last year because they were so huge.