Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An apparatus that shows how the movement of the earth on its axis and around the sun causes day and night and the seasons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for showing in what manner the causes operate which produce the succession of day and night and the changes of the seasons: a kind of orrery.
- noun an apparatus for exhibiting the mathematical relations of the earth, in which the principles of orthogonal projection are applied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instrument used to show how the
rotation of theEarth on itsaxis and itsorbit around theSun causeday andnight and theseasons .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : telluro– + Greek -ion, diminutive suff.]
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Latin tellus ("earth")
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Examples
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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.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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