TROPIC
\tɹˈɒpɪk], \tɹˈɒpɪk], \t_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of TROPIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
By Princeton University
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relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
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The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
By Oddity Software
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
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One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
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One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
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The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
By Noah Webster.
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One of the two circles on the celestial sphere, 23° 28' on each side of the equator, where the sun turns, as it were, after reaching its greatest declination north or south: one of two circles on the terrestrial globe corresponding to these:-pl. the regions lying between the tropics.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Tropical.
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Either of two parallels of latitude (23° 27'), north and south of the equator, that form the limits of the torrid zone.
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The regions of the earth between the tropics.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin, Greek] One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23° 28´, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south; –one of the two corresponding parallels of terrestrial latitude; –pl. The space lying between the tropics, called the torrid zone.
