telluric

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
2. Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.

Noun

Synonym of telluric current.

Synonyme

terrestrial

tellurian

terrene

planetary

sublunar

sublunary

Übersetzungen

telúrico

telúrico

tellurico

tellurique

أرضي

tel·lúric

terrestre

Etymologie (Englisch)

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.