Tropic: nm and adj. (word from the Latin tropicus, Greek tropikos, to find).
The word tropic has several meanings:
I) Masculine name:
1. Each of the two small circles of the terrestrial sphere, parallel to the equator from which they are 23°27' apart and which correspond to the passage of the sun at the zenith, at each of the solstices.
Tropic of Cancer: Northern Hemisphere, Capricorn, Southern Hemisphere.
Region located between the tropics (equatorial, intertropical, subtropical, tropical), because...
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