Tellurian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to the earth; (specifically, chiefly science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other planets.

   “It certainly appears difficult to reconcile with known facts the opinion maintained by [Carl] Linnæus and by [Thomas] Pennant, which is, indeed, a very prevalent one, that all the tribes of tellurian animals now existing have descended from a stock that was preserved in the ark of Noah.”

2. sıfat Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
3. sıfat Of a mineral: containing tellurium.

   “The tellurian mineral from Goldfield, Nevada, described originally as goldfieldite by Ransome (1909), was proven to be tellurian tennantite by X-ray powder diffraction (Thompson 1946).”

4. isim Alternative spelling of tellurion (“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”).
5. isim Alternative letter-case form of Tellurian (“inhabitant of the planet Earth”).

   “Friends are not alone in this magnanimity, that likes truth only when it suits them. But among all tellurians or lunarians of my acquaintance, they are distinguished for liking those like them, and liking no others.”

6. isim An inhabitant of the Earth.

   “If any distant world (which may be the case) are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources as to see distinctly through their telescopes all that we do on earth, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them?”