Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Earth; terrestrial.
- adj. Derived from or containing tellurium, especially with valence 6.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or proceeding from the earth: as, a disease of telluric origin; telluric deities.
- Of, containing, or derived from tellurium: as, telluric acid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to the Earth.
- adj. Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
- adj. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium
- adj. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
Examples
“We are not, it appears to me, more justified in applying the term telluric to the nickel and iron, the olivine and pyroxene (augite), found in meteoric stones, than in indicating the”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“These views must not, therefore, be confounded with what is commonly termed the telluric or atmospheric origin of meteoric stones, nor yet with the singular opinion of Aristotle, which supposed the enormous mass of ®gos”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“There some posters on Arrse who would find it difficult to put "telluric" on any form withour committing fraud/perjury/whatever.”
“Look, if I can spell 'Australian Aboriginal Hebephile', I can spell 'telluric' easily, OK?”
“They thread through their own strands of infection into the pheremonal plumage of kingdom socialites and prostitutes, the telluric ephemera of engineers and navigators, the chemical sequencing of medics and pushers alike.”
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“Rykwert, The idea of a town - The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy 1999, p.126: "As the egg was a picture of the whole universe, so the telluric mundus became a representation of what the Pythagoreans were the first to call cosmos.”
“You must be plugged into the telluric currents of Midwestern baseball.”
“But Ojakangas, too, is interested in the notion of the event as it relates to the law and its "sacred origins," traceable back to the telluric relation to the earth.”
“The Bubbles intensify until something breaks the marine bed, the outcry extends by all the tectonic plate until llehar to the island of Manhattan causing a great telluric movement.”
“In addition to affecting the spectra of stars, the telluric lines do affect the measurement of stellar colours and occasionally, radial velocities measured from some stellar lines.”
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mollusque I dreaded their panting, their heavy, telluric breath, skinless bones, viscera creaking and fetid with black-grease drool.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 11 Sep 29, 2008
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