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dry adiabatic lapse rate

American  

noun

  1. the rate at which air that is not saturated decreases in atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.

dry adiabatic lapse rate Scientific  
/ drī /

  1. See under lapse rate

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