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Military rule or despotism; military rule.

Uniform stretch of gray cloud in lines or waves, stratified low cumulus consisting of large balls or rolls of dark cloud which often cover the whole sky especially in winter.

Art of leading an army.

Of an army or armies.

The atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere.
Upper atmosphere, from about 7 miles/11 km. up.
That part of the atmosphere 10–40 km/6–25 mi from the Earth's surface, where the temperature slowly rises from a low of -55ºC/-67ºF to around 0ºC/32ºF. The air is rarefied and at around 25 km/15 mi much ozone is concentrated.

Pertaining to the stratosphere, pertaining to the layer of the Earth's atmosphere located between the troposphere and the mesosphere

In layers.

A volcano composed of explosively erupted cinders and ash with occasional lava flows