masu-falek-tin

thermocline

Part of speech

Pronunciation

/mɐsufɐlɛktin/

Sound out masu-falek-tin letter by letter:

• m/m/m as in 'man'
• a/ɐ/a as in 'cup' (open, central)
• s/s/s as in 'sun'
• u/u/oo as in 'food'
• f/f/f as in 'far'
• a/ɐ/a as in 'cup' (open, central)
• l/l/l as in 'love'
• e/ɛ/e as in 'bet'
• k/k/k as in 'skate' (no puff of air)
• t/t/t as in 'stop' (no puff of air)
• i/i/ee as in 'see'
• n/n/n as in 'no'

a layer in a large body of water, such as a lake, that sharply separates regions differing in temperature, so that the temperature gradient across the layer is abrupt