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atmospherics

 noun
     
Related topics: Broadcasting
at‧mo‧spher‧ics [plural]
1 features or qualities in something, especially a piece of music or a book, that give you a particular feeling
2TCB continuous cracking noises that sometimes interrupt radio broadcasts
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