Heaviside layer

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Heav·i·side layer (h

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See E layer.

[After Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), British physicist.]

Heaviside layer

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) another name for E region (of the ionosphere), predicted by English physicist Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) in 1902

Heaviside layer (h

-s

)

See E region.

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Noun

Heaviside layer - a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length

E layer, E region, Kennelly-Heaviside layer

ionosphere - the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons

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