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comparative more telluric, superlative most telluric
Pertaining to the Earth, earthly quotations examples
My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric.
1981, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
(chemistry) Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds. examples
plural tellurics
Synonym of telluric current quotations examples
Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.
1964, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Technical News Bulletin, volumes 48-49, page 131