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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)..
[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).
As they approached the steps the Klee-shaes could hear a terran favorite over the great building's Public Address system—it was Neil Young warbling Keep On Rocking In The Free World, but a Fartian host, misunderstanding the moment, transferred the track to Mollify.
Like most “fish” native to Safehold, it has a very long, sinuous body but the head does resemble a terran hake or cod, with a hooked jaw.
Annual Pack Includes: Gift pack - SOL30000 a terran year (equivalent to SOL2500/month over the duration of the adoption). Personalised certificate. Stand-up photo-portrait (14.5 x 200m) of your soldier.
Cal cut wide in his shoulder jets with a short burst and slid in to earth under a tree so like a terran cottonwood it was hard to tell the difference. The trees on windy hillsides on Lehaunan had been warped and strangely twisted […]
Hobbs' Street smelled odd, damp and sweet, but that wasn't due to the residents here but to an odd mutation of a terran honey fungus that had spread throughout the moon colony, running its mycelia through air vents, electrical ducting or […]
The NASA engineer admiringly dubbed the complete project a “terran module,” comparing it favorably with the best thing yet developed in lunar modules. Bolan liked it, though he was a bit awed by the electronic capabilities of his new warwagon.
Use terran when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Terran means (chiefly science fiction, uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of Terran (“of or from Earth; terrestrial”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] dinitrogen does not have properties that would be considered as suitable for life from a terran perspective (Table 7.2).
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