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aeriform
adj.
airy in form, gaseous; insubstantial
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The atmosphere of Earth is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation, warming the surface through heat retention (greenhouse effect), and reducing temperature extremes between day and night (the diurnal temperature variation).
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aeriform
Adjective
1. resembling air or having the form of air
(synonym) airlike
(similar) gaseous
2. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
(synonym) aerial, airy, aery, ethereal
(similar) insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal
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Aeriform
(a.)
Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.
Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.
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Aeriform
Aeriform Having the form or nature of air; used by Blavatsky to describe one of seven fundamental transformations of the constituent particles of matter of the globes (SD 1:205). Also used to describe primeval man on this earth during the fourth round, who was aeriform, devoid of compactness, and mindless (SD 2:80).
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