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thermocline definition

thermo·cline (t̸hʉr′mə klīn′)

noun

a layer of water between the warmer, surface zone and the colder, deep-water zone in a thermally stratified body of water, in which the temperature decreases rapidly with depth

Etymology: thermo- + -cline, as in anticline

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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