ATMOSPHERIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does atmospheric mean? 

• ATMOSPHERIC (adjective)
  The adjective ATMOSPHERIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or located in the atmosphere

  Familiarity information: ATMOSPHERIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATMOSPHERIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or located in the atmosphere

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

atmospheric; atmospherical

Context example:

atmospheric tests

Pertainym:

atmosphere (the mass of air surrounding the Earth)

Derivation:

atmosphere (the mass of air surrounding the Earth)

atmosphere (the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body)

atmosphere (the weather or climate at some place)

 Context examples 

High concentrations of atmospheric methane have been measured at individual Arctic sites, especially in Siberia.

(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)

The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue.

(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)

Exposure to inorganic carcinogenic Nickel Subsulfide, an atmospheric pollutant primarily generated by industries that manufacture lithium batteries, results in inflammation, hyperplasia, and fibrosis in the lungs and olfactory epithelium.

(Nickel Subsulfide, NCI Thesaurus)

Since its atmosphere is so extended, the planet is losing a significant amount of its atmospheric gases into space — between ~0.1-4% of its atmosphere’s total mass every billion years.

(Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, ESA/Hubble)

This area, where the water meets the lake bottom, may be vital to the success of ecosystems of subglacial lakes, which are permanently cut off from atmospheric heat and sunlight.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

The moist air is typically applied at increased atmospheric pressure and the process is restricted to objects that can withstand high temperature and pressure.

(Moist Heat or Steam Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

This project aims to improve our understanding of the land-use practices that play a part in potentially far-reaching changes, and to sharpen predictions of atmospheric dust loading from the Southern Hemisphere.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

This research also adds important context to other clues about atmospheric oxygen in Mars' past.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

Oxygen that is administered at a higher pressure compared to standard (i.e. sea-level) atmospheric pressure.

(Hyperbaric oxygen, NCI Thesaurus)

Oxygen that is at an atmospheric pressure higher than the pressure at sea level.

(Hyperbaric oxygen, NCI Dictionary)