solar wind

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   a stream of protons moving radially from the sun

   Broadersolar radiation

   Part ofinterplanetary medium

Questions about solar wind

What does solar wind mean?

solar wind means "a stream of protons moving radially from the sun".

Is solar wind a common word?

solar wind 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.