tachocline

Etymology

 * coined in a paper by Edward A. Spiegel and Jean-Paul Zahn in 1992 (Spiegel, E. A.; & Zahn, J.-P.; "The solar tachocline", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 265, 106–114, 1992) by analogy to the oceanic.

Noun

 * 1)  A region of abrupt transition from rotation to convection in the interior of the sun.

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Tachocline
 * Spanish: tacoclina
 * Tamil: வேகச்சரிவு