Telluric
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of telluric current.
"Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics."
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
"My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric."
- 2 Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air wordnet
- 2 of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium wordnet
Example
More examples"The Solar System has four terrestrial or telluric planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars."
Etymology
A borrowing of French tellurique, from Latin tellus (“earth; earthy”) and Tellus (“Earth, Gaia”) and -ique (forming adjectives). Subsequently also from tellurium, originally in telluric oxide from German Telluroxyd.