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HELIOPAUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("heliopause" is a kind of...):
bound; boundary; bounds (the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something)
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