Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or existing in the atmosphere.
- adjective Produced by, dependent on, or coming from the atmosphere.
- adjective Resembling or representing the atmosphere; having or giving the effect of translucence.
- adjective Intended to evoke a particular emotional tone or aesthetic quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: as, atmospheric air or vapors.
- Dependent on the atmosphere.
- Caused, produced, or operated on by the atmosphere: as, rust is an atmospheric effect.
- a variety of steam-engine in which the steam is admitted only to the under side of the piston and for the up-stroke, the down-stroke being effected by the pressure of the atmosphere caused by the formation of a vacuum under the piston through the condensation of the steam. This engine, invented by Papin in 1695, was first made a practical success by Newcomen, and was subsequently greatly improved by Watt, through the addition of a separate condenser and air-pump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere
- adjective Existing or occurring in the atmosphere.
- adjective Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere
- adjective rare Dependent on the atmosphere.
- adjective a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder.
- adjective (Steam Engin.) the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded “down to the atmosphere” when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See
Indicator card .) - adjective the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direction. In amounts to about 14.7 Ibs. on each square inch.
- adjective one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force.
- adjective See under
Tide .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, produced by, or coming from the
atmosphere . - adjective painting
Translucent orhazy . - adjective
Evoking a particularemotional oraesthetic quality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or located in the atmosphere
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Examples
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First schedule is to start doing what we call an atmospheric drop test, taking it up to a high altitude and letting it go and then piloting it down to make sure that the vehicle has all the necessary characteristics to allow to act as a piloted vehicle.
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I guess they deserve some credit as marketers to have successfully gotten so many people who rejected the socialist message to buy into the plea that they need to give up all their freedoms for a 0.01% change in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
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Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will produce many beneficial effects on the natural plant and animal environments of the earth:
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Uncannily, the amount of energy involved is sufficient to have caused the increases in atmospheric temps since the rise of Industrialization.
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Its conversion (with atmospheric removal in atmospheric O2) to CO2 is the carbon cycle.
Learning from Lomborg, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There is some evidence to suggest that the increase in atmospheric oxygen from cyanobacterial photosynthesis may have contributed to the formation of the granite "basement" for the continents.
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Even that data is suspect at the claimed resolutions due to the variabilityies of the satellite orbits due to variations in atmospheric drag, solar wind, etc. affecting orbits.
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He is an astronomer/astrophysicist by training, was an eminent physics, space physics, and astrophysics professor at UCLA for many years, and currently holds a professorship in atmospheric sciences at Scripps/UCSD.
Other Names Indicate Greening of NASA, Focus on Science - NASA Watch 2009
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The issue is how far down the road do we wish to continue the negative deline in atmospheric quality before we act.
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However, given the costs of achieving a significant reduction in atmospheric CO2 by altering fuel consumption, I think that the case for studying the climate engineering approach is pretty easy to make.
Climate Engineering, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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