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Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

One who sustains a great burden.

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to atmology. "Atmological laws of heat." Whewell.

One who is versed in atmology.

That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Whewell.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Separation by atmolysis.

To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

An apparatus for effecting atmolysis.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

rth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth.