1800, "containing tellurium;" 1836, "pertaining to Earth as a planet;" 1842, "pertaining to or proceeding from the earth;" the last two senses from Latin tellus, tellum (genitive telluris) "earth, the earth" (see tellurian) + -ic.
权威例句
1. Subsequent drilling, which resulted in the discovery of oil, supported the telluric - current picture.
后来进行钻探, 结果发现了石油, 证明了大地电流图片是正确的.
2. Seismic surveys gave a geologic picture quite different from that indicated by the telluric current.
地震勘探提供的地质图件与大地电流的结果完全不相同.
3. The more recently introduced magneto - telluric method has now come into more widespread use.
不久前出现的大地电磁法,现在应用得日益广泛.
4. We have lived too long in the telluric cavern.
我们在地洞里住得太久了.
5. Workers of the observatory had been making amateur telluric current observations.