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tropical
(mass) | tropical
- tropický |
tropical
(encz) | tropical,tropický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tropical
(gcide) | Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
Moon.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
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Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
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A month mind.
(a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
month after death. --Strype.
Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or
Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon,
particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from
one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
s.
Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
s.
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Tropical
(gcide) | Tropical \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
See Tropic, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as,
tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;
tropical diseases.
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2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact
original sense; being of the nature of a trope;
figurative; metaphorical. --Jer. Taylor.
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The foundation of all parables is some analogy or
similitude between the tropical or allusive part of
the parable and the thing intended by it. --South.
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Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month.
Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun
in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same
again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48
minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds
shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the
precession of the equinoxes.
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tropical
(wn) | tropical
adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the
tropics (the region on either side of the equator);
"tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: tropical,
tropic]
2: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical
year"
3: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes;
changed from its literal sense
4: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;
"tropical weather" [syn: tropical, tropic] |
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tropical
(mass) | tropical
- tropický |
isotropically
(encz) | isotropically,izotropicky adv: Zdeněk Brož |
neotropical realm
(encz) | Neotropical Realm,neotropická rostlinná říše [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
nontropical
(encz) | nontropical,netropický |
palaeotropical realm
(encz) | Palaeotropical Realm,paleotropická rostlinná říše [bio.] [eko.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
pantropical
(encz) | pantropical, adj: |
semitropical
(encz) | semitropical, |
subtropical
(encz) | subtropical,subtropický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tropical
(encz) | tropical,tropický adj: Zdeněk Brož |
tropical medicine
(encz) | tropical medicine, n: |
tropical pitcher plant
(encz) | tropical pitcher plant,láčkovka n: [bot.] masožravá rostlina, latinsky
Nepenthes -pv- |
tropical prawn
(encz) | tropical prawn, n: |
tropical rain forest
(encz) | tropical rain forest, n: |
tropical sore
(encz) | tropical sore, n: |
tropical sprue
(encz) | tropical sprue, n: |
tropical year
(encz) | tropical year, n: |
tropical zone
(encz) | tropical zone, n: |
tropically
(encz) | tropically,tropicky adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Allotropical
(gcide) | Allotropic \Al`lo*trop"ic\ ([a^]l`l[-o]*tr[o^]p"[i^]k),
Allotropical \Al`lo*trop"ic*al\ (-[i^]k*al), a. [Cf. F.
allotropique.]
Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly,
adv.
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Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a
case of allotropism.
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Allotropically
(gcide) | Allotropic \Al`lo*trop"ic\ ([a^]l`l[-o]*tr[o^]p"[i^]k),
Allotropical \Al`lo*trop"ic*al\ (-[i^]k*al), a. [Cf. F.
allotropique.]
Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly,
adv.
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Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a
case of allotropism.
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Extratropical
(gcide) | Extratropical \Ex`tra*trop"ic*al\, a.
Beyond or outside of the tropics. --Whewell.
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Intertropical
(gcide) | Intertropical \In`ter*trop"ic*al\, a.
Situated between or within the tropics. --J. Morse.
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Intratropical
(gcide) | Intratropical \In`tra*trop"ic*al\, a.
Within the tropics.
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Neotropical
(gcide) | Neotropical \Ne`o*trop"ic*al\, a. [Neo- + tropical.] (Geog. &
Zool.)
Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface
which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and
tropical North America.
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Subtropical
(gcide) | Subtropical \Sub*trop"ic*al\, a.
Nearly tropical.
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tropical
(gcide) | Month \Month\ (m[u^]nth), n. [OE. month, moneth, AS.
m[=o]n[eth], m[=o]na[eth]; akin to m[=o]na moon, and to D.
maand month, G. monat, OHG. m[=a]n[=o]d, Icel. m[=a]nu[eth]r,
m[=a]na[eth]r, Goth. m[=e]n[=o][thorn]s. [root]272. See
Moon.]
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the
length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the
name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called
a month.
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Note: In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or
twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed.
--Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the
common law is generally changed, and a month is
declared to mean a calendar month. --Cooley's
Blackstone.
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A month mind.
(a) A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
(b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a
month after death. --Strype.
Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or
Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November,
containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February,
which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29.
Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon,
particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are
distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from
one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m.
2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from
one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36
s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to
the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the
anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to
perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and
the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the
ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7
s.
Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one
sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1
s.
[1913 Webster]Tropical \Trop"ic*al\, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?.
See Tropic, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or
incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as,
tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;
tropical diseases.
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2. [From Trope.] Rhetorically changed from its exact
original sense; being of the nature of a trope;
figurative; metaphorical. --Jer. Taylor.
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The foundation of all parables is some analogy or
similitude between the tropical or allusive part of
the parable and the thing intended by it. --South.
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Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month.
Tropic year, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun
in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same
again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48
minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds
shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the
precession of the equinoxes.
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tropical ulcer
(gcide) | Aden ulcer \A"den ul"cer\ ([aum]"den [u^]l"s[~e]r or [=a]"den
[u^]l"s[~e]r). [So named after Aden, a seaport in Southern
Arabia, where it occurs.] (Med.)
One of the numerous names of the lesion of Old World
cutaneous leishmaniasis. Called also Aleppo boil, {Aleppo
button}, Aleppo evil, Bagdad boil, Biskra boil, {Cochin
China ulcer}, Delhi boil, Jerico boil, Oriental boil,
Oriental sore, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.
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Tropical year
(gcide) | Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to
OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r,
Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year,
springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend
y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]
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1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the
ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its
revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year;
also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this,
adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and
called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354
days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360
days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days,
and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of
366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on
account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
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Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.
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Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly
commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued
throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.
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2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about
the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.
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Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from
perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6
hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased
person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A
month's mind}, under Month.
Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
Canicular year. See under Canicular.
Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the
computation of time.
Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354
days.
Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from
leap year.
Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of
13 lunar months, or 384 days.
Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are
reckoned, or the year between one annual time of
settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and
Julian.
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical
months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and
Sabbatical.
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from
any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6
hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
Tropical year. See under Tropical.
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an
act or an event, in order that an entire year might be
secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini;
A. D. or a. d.
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Tropically
(gcide) | Tropically \Trop"ic*al*ly\, adv.
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
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Ultratropical
(gcide) | Ultratropical \Ul`tra*trop"ic*al\, a. [Pref. ultra- + tropical.]
Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical;
also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than
the tropics.
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allotropical
(wn) | allotropical
adj 1: of or related to or exhibiting allotropism; "carbon and
sulfur and phosphorus are allotropic elements" [syn:
allotropic, allotropical] |
anisotropically
(wn) | anisotropically
adv 1: in an anisotropic manner |
isotropically
(wn) | isotropically
adv 1: in an isotropic manner |
pantropical
(wn) | pantropical
adj 1: distributed throughout the tropics [syn: pantropical,
pantropic] |
semitropical
(wn) | semitropical
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the
subtropics; "even near the equator vegetation at 5000 ft
is subtropical rather than tropical" [syn: subtropical,
subtropic, semitropical, semitropic] |
subtropical
(wn) | subtropical
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the
subtropics; "even near the equator vegetation at 5000 ft
is subtropical rather than tropical" [syn: subtropical,
subtropic, semitropical, semitropic] |
tropical
(wn) | tropical
adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the
tropics (the region on either side of the equator);
"tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: tropical,
tropic]
2: of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic; "tropical
year"
3: characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes;
changed from its literal sense
4: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;
"tropical weather" [syn: tropical, tropic] |
tropical medicine
(wn) | tropical medicine
n 1: the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and
treatment of diseases that are found most often in tropical
regions |
tropical pitcher plant
(wn) | tropical pitcher plant
n 1: any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs
of the genus Nepenthes |
tropical prawn
(wn) | tropical prawn
n 1: edible tropical and warm-water prawn |
tropical rain forest
(wn) | tropical rain forest
n 1: a rain forest in a tropical area [syn: {tropical rain
forest}, selva] |
tropical sore
(wn) | tropical sore
n 1: leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin
lesions [syn: cutaneous leishmaniasis, {Old World
leishmaniasis}, oriental sore, tropical sore, {Delhi
boil}, Aleppo boil] |
tropical sprue
(wn) | tropical sprue
n 1: a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical
forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not
absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and
emaciation [syn: sprue, tropical sprue, psilosis] |
tropical year
(wn) | tropical year
n 1: the time for the earth to make one revolution around the
sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes [syn: {solar
year}, tropical year, astronomical year, {equinoctial
year}] |
tropical zone
(wn) | tropical zone
n 1: the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of
Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot
climate [syn: Torrid Zone, tropical zone, tropics] |
tropically
(wn) | tropically
adv 1: in a tropical manner; "it was tropically hot in the
greenhouse" |
equivalent isotropically radiated power
(foldoc) | equivalent isotropically radiated power
EIRP
(EIRP) The power radiated by a radio antenna
calculated as the power output of the intentional radiator
multiplied by the gain of the antenna (due to its shape).
Limits are defined by the FCC and other national regulators.
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