| Tropic (tropic) |
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| a. | (?) |
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| Trop"ic |
| [Atropine + -ic.]
(Chem.) |
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained
from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance
slightly soluble in water.
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One of the two
small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the
equator, at a distance of 23° 28***min], 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.
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Of or pertaining to the
tropics; tropical.
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