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tellurion
[ te-loor-ee-on ]
noun
- an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
tellurion
/ ³Ùɛˈ±ôÊŠÉ™°ùɪə²Ô /
noun
- an instrument that shows how day and night and the seasons result from the tilt of the earth, its rotation on its axis, and its revolution around the sun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tellurion1
1825–35; < Latin ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«°ù- (stem of ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«²õ ) earth + Greek -ion diminutive suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tellurion1
C19: from Latin ³Ù±ð±ô±ôÅ«²õ the earth
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Another dial includes a tellurion, which depicts the movement of the sun, Earth and moon.
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A tellurion will not teach the changes of the seasons; bundles of splints, notation; nor black-board examples, the law of agreement; unless these are brought under the child's mental apprehension.
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