TELLURIC • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Telluric

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Telluric adj.

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. "Amid these hot, telluric flames."

(Chem.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.

Telluric bismuth (Min.), tetradymite.

Telluric silver (Min.), hessite.

See images of 'Telluric'

Etymology of 'Telluric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Telluric" Quotes from Famous Books

... Revolution in embryo. Viewed from the standpoint of the established order, it is the very Quintessence of Nihilism. In a word, it teaches the material origin of Ideas. In the last analysis, every idea can be traced back to the economic and telluric environments. In the words of Joseph Dietzgen, "philosophy revealed to them (Marx and Engels) the basic principle that, in the last resort, the world is not governed by Ideas, but, on the contrary, the Ideas by the material world." This doctrine involves a new ...

— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte

... lies in the same warm temperate zone as the southern states. The same general hygrometric and thermometric conditions prevail throughout the two countries or sections of country. These, added to the necessary telluric conditions, give the required moisture, heat, and soil-constituents for the development of the Japan clover in the South, the same as it was originally developed in its native country. And it is just as much native to the South now, as it ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... not be able to make any serious progress until it has at its disposal very certain and very numerous data as to telluric movements registered at a large number of points at once by accurate instruments. I have endeavored to construct a simple apparatus capable of automatically registering such facts as it is most necessary to know in scientific researches on the movements of the earth. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various

... of nature, which embraces within its wide scope the remotest nebulous spots, and the revolving double stars in the regions of space, no less than the telluric phenomena included under the department of the geography of organic forms (such as plants, animals, and races of men), comprises all that I deem most specially important with regard to the connection existing between generalities and specialities, while it moreover ...

— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt

Words linked to "Telluric" : terrestrial, tellurium, tellurian