atmo

See also: Atmo and atmo-

English

Etymology

From atmosphere.

Noun

atmo (plural atmos)

1. (physics, dated) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements and calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.
   • 1880? William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Heat

     under a constant pressure of one atmo

2. (science fiction) atmosphere (of a planet)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “atmo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mota, TMAO, toma, Mato, atom, Amto, moat, Atom, Moat, Mota