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  1. noun The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field.
  2. noun The air or climate in a specific place.
  3. noun Physics A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals). See Table at measurement.
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  • Still, at least there would be one benefit of then - obvious hostility to one another. —  The Demetrios Virgin
  • Long distance measurements determined that the height of the atmosphere was almost twelve thousand miles above the core itself, which could be either solid or liquid. —  The Ghosts of Gol
  • In both cases the atmosphere was about 90 percent hydrogen, and the rest helium with a little spicing -- methane, ammonia, ethane, acetylene. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • A constable was standing at the kitchen door. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The city's destroyed. —  Dragons of Autumn Twilight
 

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  1. New Latin atmosphaera : Greek atmos, vapor; see wet-1 in Indo-European roots + Latin sphaera, sphere; see sphere.

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  1. = French atmosphère = Portuguese atmosphera = Spanish atmósfera = Italian atmosfera = Swedish atmosfer = Danish atmosfære = German atmosphäre, from New Latin atmosphæra, from Greek ἀτμός, vapor, + σφαῑρα, sphere: see sphere.
 

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