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hothouse effect

n. greenhouse effect

Usage examples of "hothouse effect".

I frowned a little, thinking of the hothouse effect of his living with his parents.

Such an atmosphere, in turn, creates a hothouse effect: it shields the planet from the cold of outer space, and keeps the planet's own heat from dissipating into space - much as clothing keeps us warm by not letting the body's heat dissipate.

Despite the situation and the time of the year, which was October, the temperature was sticky warm due to the hothouse effect of the carbon dioxide in this Earth's dead atmosphere.

Despite the situation and the time of the year, which was October, the temperature was sticky warm due to the hothouse effect of the carbon dioxide in this Earths dead atmosphere.

With the sun beating down through all the glass, the hothouse effect would shove the temperature far above the surface heat.