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Atrides
Language; Encyclopedias
Descendants of Atreus, particularly Agamemnon and Menelaus, a family frequently referred to as capable of and doomed to perpetrating the most atrocious crimes.
Atropos
Language; Encyclopedias
One of the three Fates, the one who cut asunder the thread of life; one of her sisters, Clotho, appointed to spin the thread, and the other, Lachesis, to direct it.
Atomic theory
Language; Encyclopedias
The theory that all compound bodies are made up of elementary in fixed proportions.
Atoll
Language; Encyclopedias
The name, a Polynesian one, given to a coral island consisting of a ring of coral enclosing a lagoon.
Atomic weight
Language; Encyclopedias
The weight of an atom of any body compared with that of hydrogen, the unit.
Aurora Borealis
Language; Encyclopedias
Or Northern Lights, understood to be an electric discharge through the atmosphere connected with magnetic disturbance.
