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US
/tɝˈɛstɹiəɫ/
]
[ UK /təɹˈɛstɹɪəl/ ]
[ UK /təɹˈɛstɹɪəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
the planetary tilt
this terrestrial ball
planetary rumblings and eructations -
concerned with the world or worldly matters
he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
mundane affairs - of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air
- operating or living or growing on land
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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.