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单词 telluric
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Definition of telluric in English:

telluric

adjective tɛˈljʊərɪktəˈlʊrɪk
  • 1Of the earth as a planet.

    地球的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It became increasingly obvious that this was the secret of the ancients - they used this natural telluric energy, focusing it in certain places, for their own purposes.
    • These stones, or these steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies coming up from the wells.
    • Let's see, and we also call this period the Anthropogene, the era in which mankind's activities became a ‘new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth’.
    • Yet Hepworth consistently professed a Romantic attitude of emotional affinity with nature, speaking of carving both as a ‘biological necessity’ and as an ‘extension of the telluric forces which mould the landscape’.
    • The aim was to detect long-term abnormal changes of the telluric field, which were possibly related to imbedding earthquakes.
    1. 1.1 Of the soil.
      土壤的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I do not experiment with telluric energies or sacred geometry.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin tellus, tellur- 'earth' + -ic.

Rhymes

Rurik, sulphuric (US sulfuric), Zürich

Definition of telluric in US English:

telluric

adjectivetəˈlo͝oriktəˈlʊrɪk
  • 1Of the earth as a planet.

    地球的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It became increasingly obvious that this was the secret of the ancients - they used this natural telluric energy, focusing it in certain places, for their own purposes.
    • Yet Hepworth consistently professed a Romantic attitude of emotional affinity with nature, speaking of carving both as a ‘biological necessity’ and as an ‘extension of the telluric forces which mould the landscape’.
    • These stones, or these steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies coming up from the wells.
    • Let's see, and we also call this period the Anthropogene, the era in which mankind's activities became a ‘new telluric force which in power and universality may be compared to the greater forces of earth’.
    • The aim was to detect long-term abnormal changes of the telluric field, which were possibly related to imbedding earthquakes.
    1. 1.1 Of the soil.
      土壤的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I do not experiment with telluric energies or sacred geometry.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Latin tellus, tellur- ‘earth’ + -ic.

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