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Atmosphere
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- 1 The distributed social media network of federated services using the AT Protocol. Internet
"In the ATmosphere, you don't have to make a tradeoff. You can use the service which has better moderation and still reach the accounts you want, even if they host their account somewhere else and agreed to some other TOS than you."
- 1 The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body. countable, uncountable
"To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."
- 2 a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing wordnet
- 3 The air in a particular place. countable, uncountable
"The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken."
- 4 the mass of air surrounding the Earth wordnet
- 5 The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment. countable, figuratively, uncountable
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- 6 the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body wordnet
- 7 The apparent mood felt in an environment. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"The atmosphere for the football match was great."
- 8 a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade wordnet
- 9 A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level. countable, uncountable
"A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P₂Mo_(20–24)O_(2–60)."
- 10 the weather or climate at some place wordnet
- 11 Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines. uncountable
"Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]"
- 12 a particular environment or surrounding influence wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere.
Blend of AT Protocol + atmosphere.
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