global warming

1. 1.

   an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)

   Broaderheating

Questions about global warming

What does global warming mean?

global warming means "an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)".

Is global warming a common word?

global warming is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.