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Atria

Atrium \A"tri*um\, n.; pl. Atria. [L., the fore court of a Roman house.]

  1. (Arch.)

    1. A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

    2. An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

  2. (Anat.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

  4. (Anat.) A cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
atria

classical plural of atrium.

Wiktionary
atria

n. (plural of atrium English)

WordNet
atria

See atrium

atrium

  1. n. any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)

  2. the central area in a building; open to the sky

  3. [also: atria (pl)]

Wikipedia
Atria

Atria may refer to:

  • Atrium (heart) (plural: atria), an anatomical structure of the heart
  • Atrium (architecture) (plural: atria), a large open space within a building
  • Atria (star) or Alpha Trianguli Australis, a star in the constellation Triangulum Australe
  • Atria Institute on gender equality and women's history
  • Atria Senior Living, an American assisted living company
  • Atria or Adria, an Etruscan city in the Veneto region of Northern Italy
  • Atria or Atri, Italy, an ancient city in the Abruzzo region of Central Italy
  • Atria (imprint), an imprint of Simon & Schuster
  • Atria, the home planet of the aliens in the U.S. TV series Star-Crossed
  • Atria Software, the original maker of ClearCase
  • Atria (company), a large Finnish food company
Atria (gens)

The gens Atria was a Roman family, known primarily from two individuals who flourished during the middle years of the first century BC.

Quintus Atrius was a lieutenant of Caesar during his second expedition into Britannia in 54 BC. He was left on the coast to take care of the ships while Caesar himself marched into the interior of the country.

Publius Atrius was an eques who belonged to Pompeius' party. He was taken prisoner by Caesar in Africa in 47 BC but was spared.

Atria (company)

Atria Oyj is a Finnish food industry company.

Atria's net sales in 2013 were EUR 1 411 million and it employed an average of 4 669 people. The group is divided into four business areas, which are Atria Finland, Atria Scandinavia, Atria Russia and Atria Baltic. Atria’s customers are retailers, food service, the food industry, and its own fast food concept.

Atria's roots date from 1903, when a co-operative for livestock sales was founded. Atria is listed on the Helsinki stock exchange, NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Usage examples of "atria".

You are charged with killing fifty-seven sentient entities on the planet Atria XVI.

Manslaughter, murder three, involuntary homicide—none of these terms exist in Atrian law.

I don't know if he was drunk or sober, but, for whatever reason, he voluntarily or involuntarily—he swears it was the latter—turned off his T-pack while walking down a major Atrian thoroughfare.

The heat of his body would have killed every Atrian within two hundred feet of him.

Seems we're cultivating the Atrians’ friendship, so he's got to stand trial.

But for those crimes that could be committed by non-Atrians, they were meaningful in the extreme.

And, finally, there was only one court on Atria, because of the relative absence of crime.

As yet, his case hadn't been heard on Atria XVI, for on that unthinkably frigid world there were no bills of indictment, no pretrial hearings, nothing but a simple verdict of innocent or guilty.

First, the only Atrian who won a court case on any other world was executed upon returning to Atria XVI, because they thought the judgment had been too lenient.

Assuming he hasn't been sleeping all afternoon, he should have figured out what form of communication passes for video on Atria XVI.

My interpretation is that under Atrian law, murder need not be premeditated, but is defined simply and explicitly as the taking of one or more Atrian lives, by any means whatsoever, with or without motive or preknowledge.

If you cannot prove, absolutely and beyond question, that Man Krantz did not cause the deaths of fifty-seven Atrians, then you are wasting the court's time.

If, in the next instant, my life-support system should fail, due to a malfunction that is clearly the fault of the manufacturer, a tremendous amount of heat would shortly escape my protective suit, enough heat to destroy every Atrian in the room.

And let us also keep in mind that you have found—hypothetically, to be sure—that a law can be impractical, and that the death of an Atrian is not necessarily the responsibility of the destroying agent.

Heinrich Krantz, a man with no prior criminal record, found himself on a crowded Atrian thoroughfare.