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greenhouse effect is a noun meaning "warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth". It carries one recorded sense.
warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for greenhouse effect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.