Tropic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ 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.

   “For since on ev'ry Sea, on ev'ry Coast, Your Men have been distress'd, your Navy tost, Sev'n times the Sun has either Tropick view'd,”

2. isim The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.
3. sıfat Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
4. sıfat Hot and humid.
5. sıfat Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.

   “The binding of oxygen to hemoglobin is allosterically regulated by various tropic factors, such as BPG and acidity.”

6. sıfat Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.

   “This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]”

7. isim Alternative form of tropic (one of two specific lines of latitude that divide the Northern and Southern hemispheres, respectively; the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn).