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Photospheric

Photospheric \Pho`to*spher"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

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photospheric

a. of, relating to, or occurring in the photosphere

Usage examples of "photospheric".

The zodiacal lens was immense, though wanly lit, but the disc was featureless - no spots, flares, prominences, corona - and had no sharp photospheric edge, fading instead blurrily away into space.

Through the spokes of his wet lashes, and what with all the photospheric brilliance above and behind her, well, she lookedshe looked to him like a stern and formidable angel, divine essence, a Power, a Dominion, a Throne, covered in prismatic jewelry, sliding down the sun's rays.

The pulsing of the photospheric cells send ripples of gravitation upwards through the chromosphere, subtly strumming chords of space-time across millions of kilometers, and charged particles, riding the crests of Alfven waves, sweep outward in a mighty wind.