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Atmosphere

noun

A particular environment or surrounding influence. Synonyms: ambiance, ambience.

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, standard atmosphere, standard pressure.

The mass of air surrounding the Earth. Synonym: air. "It was exposed to the air"

The weather or climate at some place. Synonym: atmospheric state.

The envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body.

A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing. Synonyms: air, aura. "The house had a neglected air" , "An atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters" , "The place had an aura of romance"

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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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