tropic

Definitions

1. 1adjective

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

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

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

5. 5adjective

   Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

6. 6noun

   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

7. 7adjective

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

   "tropical weather"

   Synonyms

   tropical
8. 8adjective

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

   "tropical islands"

   "tropical fruit"

   Synonyms

   tropical