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1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
(figuratively) The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
1959, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 87, page 6658:
A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P2Mo20–24O2–60.
2006, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 51, number 2, page 100:
Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]
2013, Kerry Segrave, Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945, page 38:
"It is estimated conservatively that there are some 50,000 would-be film extras in and around the celluloid capital, persons who would jump at the opportunity to appear as atmosphere in pictures," Scott concluded.
2015, William R. Phillippe, The Pastor's Diary:
By the way, I discovered that we were not extras but background, as far as the director was concerned; and for the producer, we were atmosphere.
