ATMOSPHERIC STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does atmospheric state mean? 

• ATMOSPHERIC STATE (noun)
  The noun ATMOSPHERIC STATE has 1 sense:

1. the weather or climate at some place

  Familiarity information: ATMOSPHERIC STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATMOSPHERIC STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The weather or climate at some place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

atmosphere; atmospheric state

Context example:

the atmosphere was thick with fog

Hypernyms ("atmospheric state" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atmospheric state"):

air mass (a large body of air with uniform characteristics horizontally)

anticyclone ((meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern)

cyclone ((meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern)

fog; fogginess; murk; murkiness (an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance)