Tropic

Quick meaning: Tropic is a noun meaning (philosophy) The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.

Meaning

(philosophy) The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.

More Meanings

1. Of, or relating to the tropics; tropical.
2. (biochemistry, not comparable) Having the quality of indirectly inducing a biological or chemical change in a system or substrate.
3. Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes.
4. (geography) 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.

Example Sentences

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

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,

Tropes may also interact with other tropes: a trope (for example, a metonymic association) may become an element in a different trope (for instance, a metaphor), and thus undergo a transformation of its tropic identity.

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[…]

Word Forms

• tropics
• tropick

Synonyms for tropic

Depending on context, synonyms include hot, tropical, equatorial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tropical, equatorial, hot, exceeding, tropick, tropopause.

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