atmospherium

American  

[at-muhs-feer-ee-uhm] / ˌæt məsˈfɪər i əm /

noun

• atmospheria
  plural

1. an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.

2. a building in which this projection system is used.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• atmospheria
  plural

Etymology

Origin of atmospherium

First recorded in 1955–60; atmospher(e) ( def. ) + (planetar)ium ( def. )

Example Sentences

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atmospheria

The half-blind thing that was Pink groped for the handle, recognizing dimly that if this were not the atmospheria, then it was all over.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.

Silently Pink cursed the architect who had designed the Elephant's Child with the armaments room in the bow and the atmospheria back near the crew's sector, a thousand feet of passageways off.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.

The three of them went toward the atmospheria, Calico and Sparks following slowly.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.

It was growing rarer every instant; but never mind trying to conserve it—the life of everyone aboard depended on his reaching the atmospheria.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.

Through a red haze he saw that he was in the first of the two small rooms that made up the atmospheria.

From The Giants From Outer Space by Reynard, Geoff St.