[ US /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ ]
[ UK /ˈætməsfˌi‍ə/ ]
NOUN
  1. a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
  2. the weather or climate at some place
    the atmosphere was thick with fog
  3. the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
  4. the mass of air surrounding the Earth
    there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere
    it was exposed to the air
  5. a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
    an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters
    the place had an aura of romance
    the house had a neglected air
    an air of mystery
  6. a particular environment or surrounding influence
    there was an atmosphere of excitement
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How To Use atmosphere In A Sentence

  • The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
  • The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
  • It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
  • Particulates and dust in Earth's atmosphere along the line of sight tend to absorb blue light more effectively than red light.
  • But anywhere else, the general buzz of the atmosphere would have sustained the crowd.
  • I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
  • Many metals are readily oxidized by oxygen in the atmosphere.
  • We would also be spewing far more carbon into the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
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