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tellurions

tellurions is the plural of tellurion.

Meaning of tellurion

Noun

tellurion (plural tellurions)

  1. (historical) An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
    • The Second Part of this Orrery I call a Tellurian, [...] becauſe it ſhews moſt accurately and evidently all the Phœnomena ariſing from the Annual and Diurnal Motions of the Earth, in a Terreſtrial Globe full Three Inches in a Diameter; upon which all the Parts of the terraqueous Surface are...1771, Benjamin Martin, “Of the Tellurian”, in The Description and Use of an Orrery of a New Construction, Representing in the Various Parts of Its Machinery All the Motions and Phoenomena of the...

Questions about tellurions

What is tellurions the plural of?
Tellurions is the plural of tellurion.

Words near tellurions in the dictionary

  1. telluride gold
  2. telluride of gold and silver
  3. tellurides
  4. telluriferous
  5. tellurion
  6. tellurions
  7. tellurious
  8. tellurise
  9. tellurised
  10. tellurises
  11. tellurising

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