ozone layer

English

Noun

ozone layer (plural ozone layers)

1. A region of the stratosphere, between 15 and 30 kilometres in altitude, containing a relatively high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most solar ultraviolet radiation.

Synonyms

• ozone shield

Translations

a region of the stratosphere

• Arabic: طَبَقَة اَلْأُوزُون f (ṭabaqat al-ʾūzūn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臭氧層／臭氧层 (zh) (chòuyǎngcéng), 臭氧层 (zh) (chòuyǎngcéng)

• Czech: ozonová vrstva f
• Danish: ozonlag (da) n
• Dutch: ozonlaag (nl) f or m
• Finnish: otsonikerros (fi)
• French: couche d’ozone (fr) f, ozone (fr) m
• German: Ozonschicht (de) f
• Greek: στρώμα του όζοντος n (stróma tou ózontos), οζονόσφαιρα (el) f (ozonósfaira)
• Hungarian: ózonréteg (hu)
• Icelandic: ósonlagið n
• Italian: ozonosfera f
• Japanese: オゾン層 (ja) (ozon-sō)
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• Korean: 오존층 (ojon-cheung)
• Malay: lapisan ozon
• Mongolian: озоны давхарга (ozony davxarga)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ozonlag n

  Nynorsk: ozonlag n

• Persian: لایهٔ اوزون (lâye-ye ozon)
• Polish: ozonosfera (pl) f, warstwa ozonowa f
• Portuguese: (Brazil) camada de ozônio f, (Portugal) camada de ozono f
• Russian: озо́новый слой m (ozónovyj sloj)
• Spanish: capa de ozono f
• Swedish: ozonlager (sv) n
• Vietnamese: tầng ôzôn