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ATMOSPHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Example:
the place had an aura of romance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
mystique (an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing)
note (a characteristic emotional quality)
vibe; vibration (a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The mass of air surrounding the Earth
Example:
it was exposed to the air
Synonyms:
air; atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Meronyms (parts of "atmosphere"):
air space; airspace (the space in the atmosphere immediately above the earth)
ionosphere (the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons)
Part meronym:
earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
airspace (the atmosphere above a nation that is deemed to be under its jurisdiction)
Derivation:
atmospheric; atmospherical (relating to or located in the atmosphere)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
Meronyms (parts of "atmosphere"):
troposphere (the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude))
thermosphere (the atmospheric layer between the mesosphere and the exosphere)
stratosphere (the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere)
mesosphere (the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere)
exosphere (the outermost atmospheric layer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
Derivation:
atmospheric; atmospherical (relating to or located in the atmosphere)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
Synonyms:
atm; atmosphere; standard atmosphere; standard pressure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
pressure unit (a unit measuring force per unit area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
s.t.p.; STP (standard temperature and pressure)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The weather or climate at some place
Example:
the atmosphere was thick with fog
Synonyms:
atmosphere; atmospheric state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
air mass (a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontally)
anticyclone ((meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern)
cyclone ((meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern)
fog; fogginess; murk; murkiness (an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance)
Derivation:
atmospheric (relating to or located in the atmosphere)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A particular environment or surrounding influence
Example:
there was an atmosphere of excitement
Synonyms:
ambiance; ambience; atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("atmosphere" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmosphere"):
genius loci (the special atmosphere of a place)
gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)
miasm; miasma (an unwholesome atmosphere)
feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; smell; spirit; tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people)
Context examples:
According to the MAVEN data, solar particles that caused the "Christmas lights" penetrated deeply into the Martian atmosphere—sparking auroras less than 100 km from the surface.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
Additionally, while green is the dominant color of earthly auroras, a vivid red color would stand out in a brown dwarf's aurora because of the higher hydrogen content of the object's atmosphere.
(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)
Now, a deeper analysis of the same Spitzer data finds this planet likely has an atmosphere whose ingredients could be similar to those of Earth's atmosphere, but thicker.
(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)
My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The atmosphere of the room was of a horrible and depressing stuffiness.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere and equal to the pressure indicated by one millimeter rise of mercury in a barometer at the Earth's surface.
(Millimeter of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 133,332 Pa or 1.316E10-3 standard atmosphere.
(Millimeter of Mercury, NCI Thesaurus)
How welcome was that breath of sweet, damp air after the fetid atmosphere of the supper-room.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Never had the peaceful atmosphere of the old Cistercian house been so rudely ruffled.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
