atmospheric tide

American  

noun

Meteorology.

1. a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and by daily solar heating.

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Etymology

Origin of atmospheric tide

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Within the hotel chemical odors ebbed and flowed like an atmospheric tide.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

If the reader has watched his barometer narrowly, he has observed a very remarkable phenomenon, which is not known to prevail outside of the trade-wind belts—an atmospheric tide.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

This atmospheric tide is due, no doubt, to the same cause that produces the aqueous tides—the attraction of the moon.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael