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US
/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/
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[ UK /ˈætməsfˌiə/ ]
[ UK /ˈætməsfˌiə/ ]
NOUN
- a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
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the weather or climate at some place
the atmosphere was thick with fog - the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
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the mass of air surrounding the Earth
there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere
it was exposed to the air -
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 -
a particular environment or surrounding influence
there was an atmosphere of excitement
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
