HELIOSPHERE

heliosphere

(noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

heliosphere (plural heliospheres)

(astronomy) The region of space where interstellar medium is blown away by solar wind; the boundary, heliopause, is often considered the edge of the Solar System.

Hypernyms

• astrosphere

Coordinate terms

• bow shock

• heliopause

• heliosheath

• inner heliosphere

• termination shock

• solar magnetosphere

• solar wind

Source: Wiktionary



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10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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