telluric
telluric adjective: pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
Adjective
telluric (comparative more telluric, superlative most telluric)
- Pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
- My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.1981, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Synonyms:
- earthly, terrestrial, tellurian, terrene
- Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds.
Noun
telluric (plural tellurics)
- Synonym of telluric current.
- Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.1964, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Technical News Bulletin, volumes 48-49, page 131
- Synonyms:
- telluric current
telluric meaning in Tamil and Bengali
telluric in Tamil
- டெலூரியத்திற்குறிய, நிலத்தின், நிலத்திலிருந்து, நிலத்தில்
telluric in Bengali
- পৃথিবী সম্পর্কিত, পার্থিব, টেলুরিয়াম ধারণকারী
Synonyms of telluric
Forms of telluric
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more telluric |
| superlative | most telluric |
| Noun | |
| plural | tellurics |
Origin of telluric
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.
Words formed from telluric
- hydrotelluric
- intratelluric
- magnetotelluric
- magnetotellurics
- telluric acid
- telluric bismuth
- telluric current
- telluric gold
- telluric iron
- telluric ochertelluric ochre
- telluric oxide
- telluric planet
- telluric silver
- tellurism
- tellurist
- ultratelluric
Phrases with telluric
Questions about telluric
- What does telluric mean?
- Telluric means pertaining to the Earth, earthly.
- What is telluric in Tamil?
- Telluric in Tamil is டெலூரியத்திற்குறிய, நிலத்தின், நிலத்திலிருந்து. See Telluric meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is telluric?
- Telluric can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near telluric in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: telluric (page history and authors); telluric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); telluric (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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