atmosphere
IPA: ˈætmʌsfɪr
noun
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- The air in a particular place.
- (figuratively) The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (television, film, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
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Examples of "atmosphere" in Sentences
- Until you've played in one, you don't realize how different the atmosphere is at a major.
- Accordingly the atmosphere is a bit strained and the men have difficulties in getting used to this kind of treatment.
- Just curious as they seemed to be crying about how bad the atmosphere is here while going out of their way to make it worse.
- However, the bit that one tree can draw from the atmosphere is a minute fraction of what another tree, left uncut, would consume.
- Pumping sulfur into the atmosphere is a lot easier than trying to orchestrate the actions of 200 countries — or, for that matter, 7 billion individuals — each of whom has strong incentives to cheat.
- We could, if the we decide that reducing the amount of co2 in the atmosphere is a worthy goal, use some of the proceeds of a carbon tax to pay for schemes that get co2 from the atmosphere and sequester it.
- Peak coal will follow peak oil by about 20 years, maybe 10 if we pursue the insane delusions of the cornucopians who think that trying make Nazi oil and pumping all the carbon of the coal fields into the atmosphere is a good idea.
- When the atmosphere is of the same weight and density orer a considerable extent of the surface of the earth, there a calm will obtain: but if this equipoise is taken off, a stream of air, or. wind, is produced, stronger or weaker in proportion to the alteration made in the state of the atmosphere* There are direr* causes which make these alterations in the equipoise of the atmosphere, such as rarefactions or conden - sations in one part more than in another; yapoura rising from the earth or sea, pressure of the clouds, &c.
- _ -- Watt being a mathematical instrument maker, was requested to repair an old engine used by some students of Glasgow University; having finished the repairs, and in working this model (the best type of the atmospheric engine), he found and proved by many and various experiments, that an enormous waste of fuel was absolutely necessary in working the engine; he found great difficulty in keeping the air from entering the cylinder, and the cylinder top was so exposed to the atmosphere that the steam was much condensed when it entered the cylinder, and he came to the conclusion to put a cover on the top of the cylinder, and allow the piston-rod to play in a hole in the cover with a gland and stuffing box, and _to press down the piston with steam instead of the atmosphere_.
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