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terrestrial

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[ US /tɝˈɛstɹiəɫ/ ]
[ UK /təɹˈɛstɹɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
    the planetary tilt
    this terrestrial ball
    planetary rumblings and eructations
  2. concerned with the world or worldly matters
    he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
    mundane affairs
  3. of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
  4. operating or living or growing on land
  5. of this earth
    fleeting sublunary pleasures
    the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
    transcendental motives for sublunary actions

How To Use terrestrial In A Sentence

  • The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
  • Physicist and ufologist Stan Friedman argues that it's overwhelmingly likely that some UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Posthuman Blues
  • Sebastian explains that the company is working to rebroadcast its signal terrestrially, so that it can be received by less expensive mobile receivers.
  • She has long been creating terrestrial and aerial topographies, and the installation anticipates her own design for the Roman museum itself (scheduled for completion in 2004).
  • The other extreme involves slow weathering of terrestrial carbonates, their dissolution, river-borne transport, and eventual sedimentation in the ocean, and the element's return to land by geotectonic processes. Global material cycles
  • The geographical proximity of European countries has permitted fewer channels for terrestrial broadcast services in a single country than elsewhere. Television - policy and culture
  • Settlers of every nation are embedded in the STZs subterrestrial zones. Deeper
  • Base Nutrient Depletion: Acidification of soils causes the removal of nutrients (a process known as leaching) from terrestrial ecosystems. Acid deposition fact sheet
  • Yet conservation of this heritage is a century behind terrestrial archaeology, and as public fascination with it increases, so do the threats.
  • The two principal alternatives to the explanation that crop circles are made by humans are that they are made by extraterrestrials, or that they are made naturally by wind vortices.
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