Usually means: Trapping heat, warming Earth's atmosphere.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word greenhouse effect:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenhouse effect, the greenhouse effect: Merriam-Webster
  2. greenhouse effect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greenhouse effect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greenhouse effect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greenhouse effect: Vocabulary.com
  6. the greenhouse effect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. greenhouse effect: Wiktionary
  8. greenhouse effect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. greenhouse effect: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. greenhouse effect: Dictionary.com
  11. Greenhouse Effect (music group), Greenhouse effect (judicial drift), Greenhouse effect, The Greenhouse effect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. greenhouse effect: Rhymezone
  13. greenhouse effect: FreeDictionary.org
  14. greenhouse effect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. greenhouse effect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. greenhouse effect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Greenhouse effect: Energy Dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Greenhouse effect, greenhouse effect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Greenhouse effect, greenhouse effect: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Greenhouse Effect: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  5. Greenhouse Effect: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  6. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  7. Greenhouse Effect: Extragalactic Astronomy
  8. greenhouse effect: Nine Planets Glossary
  9. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  10. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  11. GREENHOUSE EFFECT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greenhouse effect: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. greenhouse effect: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Greenhouse Effect: Glossary of Air Pollution Terms
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See greenhouse_effects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (greenhouse effect)

noun:  (climatology, climate change) The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.

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