van allen belt

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   a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field

   Broaderbelt

   Part ofEarth

Questions about van allen belt

What does van allen belt mean?

van allen belt means "a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field".

Is van allen belt a common word?

van allen belt 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.