MEANING
One of the regions around Earth where energetic charged particles are held by its magnetic field.
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- the Van Allen belts
- a Van Allen radiation belt
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The route crossed a Van Allen radiation belt before reaching the outer orbit.
They modeled the Van Allen belts’ particle environment before selecting the shielding.
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- van allen belt
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular van allen belt; plural van allen belts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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