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ATMOSPHERIC STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("atmospheric state" 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 "atmospheric state"):
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)
