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noun

Atmosphere n.

(Physics)

(a)

The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

(b)

Any gaseous envelope or medium. "An atmosphere of cold oxygen."

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 lbs. to the sq. inch. "Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres."

Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition. "The chillest of social atmospheres."

The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

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Etymology of 'Atmosphere'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the sons of an Oxford professor of poetry, an old Jacobite of no observable merit beyond that of surrounding his family with an atmosphere of the study of verse. The elder brother was born in 1722, the younger in 1728. I must be forgiven if I dwell a little tediously on dates, for our inquiry depends upon the use of them. Without dates the whole point of that precedency ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... of mankind, and attributing the differences observable among men to chance or to education. If Galileo had not happened to be walking in a garden in Florence where certain workmen asked him a question about a pump, he would not, according to Helvetius, have discovered the weight of the atmosphere. It was the fall of the apple which gave Newton his theory of gravitation. Such puerilities as these disgust us in the book; yet the theory that greatness is but the result of an inconsiderable accident, was not unnatural ...

— The Eve of the French Revolution • Edward J. Lowell

... At the same time the conversation had the bad effect of leading to an acute relapse in the matter of homesickness. The rose-garden at home had been one of Mike's favourite haunts on a summer afternoon. The contrast between it and the basement of the new Asiatic Bank, the atmosphere of which was far from being roselike, was too much for his feelings. He emerged from the depths, with his punched stamps, filled with bitterness ...

— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

... gunman and a Hun. He was unconscious of either. The uncertain market; the slump, momentarily undiscernible, but mathematically inevitable; customers, credulous or sceptical, but always avid; the pulse of the feverish street which the ticker indifferently registered; the atmosphere of tobacco and greed; the trailing announcements; "Steel, three-fourths; Pennsy, a half," these things were forgotten. The train crashed on. Of that too he ...

— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... visibly shivered, though clearly not in the least nervous. He is keenly interested in psychical inquiry, but has never had any "experience" other than subjective sympathy with the psychic impressions of others, or a consciousness, such as he described on his arrival here, of an atmosphere other than normal. (This last has been of frequent occurrence, and seems to ...

— The Alleged Haunting of B---- House • Various

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