tropic
Meanings
noun
- Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
- The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.
adj
- Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
- Hot and humid.
- Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
- Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
noun
- Alternative form of tropic (one of two specific lines of latitude that divide the Northern and Southern hemispheres, respectively; the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn).
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Etymology
From Late Latin tropicus (“of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”), from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).
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