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n. Either of two parallels of latitude on the earth, one 23°27ʹ north of the equator and the other 23°27ʹ south of the equator, representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone.

n. The region of the earth's surface lying between these latitudes.

n. Astronomy Either of two corresponding parallels of celestial latitude that are the limits of the apparent northern and southern passages of the sun.

adj. Of or relating to the Tropics; tropical.

n. Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°27′north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.

adj. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.

adj. hot and humid.

adj. (noncomparative) Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

n. 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.

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n. One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.

n. The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

adj. Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

Pertaining to or of the nature of the growing, bending, or moving of organisms in relation to external agents; exhibiting tropism.

Related to tropine.

Pertaining to the tropics (the regions so called); tropical.

n. The turning-point; a solstitial point.

n. In astronomy, one of two circles on the celestial sphere whose distances from the equator are each equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic, or 23½° nearly.

n. In geography, one of two parallels of latitude, each at the same distance from the terrestrial equator as the celestial tropics are from the celestial equator—that is, about 23½°.

n. plural With the definite article: the regions lying between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, or near them on either side.

adj. of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics

n. either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics

adj. relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator)

"The suffix "tropic" is from a Greek word meaning "to turn" and makes, no sense in this connection."

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malignant fever of the tropics    tropic acid   

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Tropic of Cancer    Tropic of Capricorn   

Tropic of Cancer    Tropic of Capricorn    tropical    semitropical    subtropical    subtropics   

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