photosphere

photosphere

See also: photosphère

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ -sphere

Pronunciation

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Noun

photosphere (plural photospheres)

1. (astronomy) A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.

Translations

A visible surface layer of a star

Afrikaans: fotosfeer Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: fotosfera Catalan: fotosfera f Chinese: Mandarin: 光球 (zh) (guāngqiú) Finnish: fotosfääri (fi) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Photosphäre (de) f Greek: φωτόσφαιρα (el) f (fotósfaira) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: ljóshvolf n Japanese: 光球 (こうきゅう, kōkyū) Korean: 광구 (ko) (gwanggu) Norwegian: Bokmål: fotosfære (no) m Nynorsk: fotosfære m Polish: fotosfera (pl) Portuguese: fotosfera f Russian: фотосфе́ра (ru) f (fotosféra) Spanish: fotosfera f Tagalog: sugbulog Vietnamese: quang cầu (vi)

See also

• photon sphere (a part of a black hole)

Further reading

• photosphere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “photosphere”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.