1. tropic - Noun
2. tropic - Adjective
3. tropic - Adjective Satellite
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
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All he had to go by was the definition of the frigid zone as the latitudes north of the line where the celestial arctic circle was equal to the celestial Tropic of Cancer, the tropikos kuklos (refer to the next subsection). Source: Internet
But as the Europeans moved further into the heart of the continent, they crossed the Tropic of Capricorn. Source: Internet
Although the Tropic of Cancer —the boundary between the tropics and subtropics—passes through the middle of India, the whole country is considered to be tropical. Source: Internet