tachocline

English

Etymology

tachy- +‎ -cline

Coined in a paper by Edward A. Spiegel and Jean-Paul Zahn in 1992 (Spiegel, E. A.; & Zahn, J.-P.; "The Solra tachocline", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 265, 106–114, 1992) by analogy to the oceanic thermocline.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta.ko.klaɪn/

Noun

tachocline (plural tachoclines)

  1. (astronomy) A region of abrupt transition from rotation to convection in the interior of the sun.

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