Tropic of Capricorn
- noun
- /ˈtrɒpɪk əv kæpˈrɪkɔrn/
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Trópico de Capricornio
- But here we have Dr Eberhart telling us how Jadway read and discussed Tropic of Capricorn.
Examples
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69 degrees, the Tropic of Capricorn, 45 degrees west.
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During the cold winter of 2007, it snowed in the entire central region of Argentina, and even snowed in Tucumán, on the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Where is the Tropic of Capricorn?
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They cast off from Pelican Point on Walvis Bay, at the southern edge of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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We confuse Tropic of Capricorn with Tropic of Cancer, which I'm sure was published while Jadway was still very much alive.
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"When Jadway was asked to give examples of books "that depicted the more common hostile love, "he cited Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, "which he had just read, "as a book that reflected the brutality of l0ve."
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The sun is directly overhead on the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere during the December solstice.
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They cast off from Pelican Point on Walvis Bay, at the southern edge of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Because Namibia sits on the Tropic of Capricorn, the center of the Milky Way transits the zenith, giving visitors like me full access to our galaxy's core wonders.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is compositionally transparent: 'tropic' denotes one of the latitude parallels near 23.5° and 'of Capricorn' indicates which parallel (the one associated with the constellation/zodiac sign Capricorn). A B1 learner who knows these constituent meanings and the simple preposition 'of' can infer it refers to the southern tropic at about 23.5° south; this naming pattern is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Tropic of Capricorn was named long ago when people watched the sun and the stars; at the time of year when the sun is farthest south it appeared near the star picture called Capricorn. So the word tropic came to mean the line where the sun can be 'directly overhead', and today Tropic of Capricorn is the name for that southern line around the Earth.
