Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Thermal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or relating to heat; thermal: as, thermic conditions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal.
  • adjective See Bolometer.
  • adjective (Med.) the condition of fever produced by sunstroke. See Sunstroke.
  • adjective (Mech.) Same as Heat weight, under Heat.

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  • adjective of, related to, or associated with heat; thermal

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  • adjective relating to or associated with heat

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Examples

  • Therefore, when the education of the attention has been begun, we may present to the child the rough and smooth surfaces (following certain thermic exercises described elsewhere in the book).

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • The soil temperature regimes are mostly thermic, mesic at higher elevation, and some isomesic near the coast.

    North Coastal Santa Lucia Range (Bailey) 2009

  • Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with thermic, isothermic or mesic soil temperature regimes and xeric, ustic or aquic soil moisture regimes.

    Southern California Coast (Bailey) 2009

  • The soil temperature regimes are thermic and isothermic.

    Southern Channel Islands (Bailey) 2009

  • Alfisols, Entisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with isomesic, mesic or thermic soil temperature regimes and xeric, udic, ustic or aquic soil moisture regimes.

    Central California Coast (Bailey) 2009

  • Soil temperature regimes are mostly isothermic, and some are thermic.

    Northern Channel Islands (Bailey) 2009

  • The basin soils are mostly Entisols and Aridisols that typically have a thermic temperature regime; they are warmer than those of Ecoregion 13.

    Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA) 2009

  • Soil temperature regimes are thermic, and soil moisture regimes are xeric.

    Coastal Terraces (Bailey) 2009

  • Alfisols, Inceptisols, Mollisols, Spodosols (Pygmy Forest), Ultisols and Vertisols in combination with isomesic, mesic or thermic soil temperature regimes, and aquic, udic, ustic or xeric (moist end of range) soil moisture regimes.

    Northern California Coast (Bailey) 2009

  • The soil temperature regimes are mesic and thermic inland, mesic on the rolling hills between the Santa Rosa plain and the Pacific Ocean, and isomesic along the coast.

    Coastal Hills - Santa Rosa Plain 2009

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