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VAN ALLEN BELT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
belt (an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found)
Part meronym:
earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)
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