Usually means: Rate of temperature change vertically.
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  1. lapse rate: Merriam-Webster
  2. lapse rate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lapse rate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lapse rate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lapse rate: Wiktionary
  6. lapse rate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. lapse rate: Dictionary.com
  8. Lapse rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. lapse rate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lapse rate: Encyclopedia

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  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lapse rate)

noun:  (meteorology) The rate of change in an atmospheric variable, especially temperature, with increase of height.

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