Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GREENHOUSE

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Definitions of GREENHOUSE

1. A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
2. The glass of a plane's cockpit.
3. (medicine) A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.
4. (climatology) A hot state in global climate.
5. (transitive) To place (plants) in a greenhouse.
6. (transitive, figurative) To nurture in order to promote growth.
7. A surname.

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Examples of Using GREENHOUSE in a Sentence

• The warming from the greenhouse effect has a logarithmic relationship with the concentration of greenhouse gases.
• The Cambrian was a time of greenhouse climate conditions, with high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and low levels of oxygen in the atmosphere and seas.
• thumbA carbon sink is a natural or artificial carbon sequestration process that "removes a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere".
• Conservatory (greenhouse), a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including medicinal ones and including attached residential solariums.
• Carbon dioxide equivalent, a scale of measurement of the "greenhouse effect" of other atmospheric gases.
• Production emits greenhouse gases, including methane from feedstock production and carbon dioxide from any non-sustainable energy used.
• Emission of greenhouse gases, which absorb and emit radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
• He is the author or editor of several books, including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (1970), The Ocean in Human Affairs (1989), Global Climate Change (1989), The Greenhouse Debate Continued (1992), and Hot Talk, Cold Science (1997).
• The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
• Global warming potential (GWP) is an index to measure how much infrared thermal radiation a greenhouse gas would absorb over a given time frame after it has been added to the atmosphere (or emitted to the atmosphere).
• The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) (1989–2001) was an international lobbyist group of businesses that opposed action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and engaged in climate change denial, publicly challenging the science behind global warming.
• In the scientific literature, there is a very strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.
• Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet.
• The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to reduce the onset of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to "a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" (Article 2).
• It is characterized by the dominance of gymnosperms and of archosaurian reptiles, such as the dinosaurs; a hot greenhouse climate; and the tectonic break-up of Pangaea.
• Transport consumes a quarter of energy in Turkey, and is a major source of air pollution in Turkey and greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey.
• Annex I countries should adopt national policies and take corresponding measures to limit their emissions of greenhouse gases.
• In the 1960s, Charles David Keeling reliably measured the level of carbon dioxide present in the air showing it was increasing and that, according to the greenhouse hypothesis, it was sufficient to cause significant global warming.
• The novel is a story of environmental destruction set in 2025; as a result of global warming and the greenhouse effect, the climate has drastically changed, and, accordingly, biodiversity is a thing of the past.
• It is an alternative to "conventional" waste disposal that can save material and help lower greenhouse gas emissions.
• They are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by essentially increasing the price of fossil fuels.
• The terms greenhouse, glasshouse, and hothouse are often used interchangeably to refer to buildings used for cultivating plants.
• Being a component of Earth's hydrosphere and hydrologic cycle, it is particularly abundant in Earth's atmosphere, where it acts as a greenhouse gas and warming feedback, contributing more to total greenhouse effect than non-condensable gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
• In 2002, this county ranked first in Oklahoma for the value of nursery and greenhouse crops and seventh in the state for poultry and eggs.
• Bayer greenhouse is a Bayer facility where the company is testing ways "to help corn better adapt to various climate conditions around the world".

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