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noun
An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh2- (“ground, bottom”) + -ion (a Latinate suffix used in place of -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’)), possibly coined by Benjamin Martin (baptized 1705; died 1782), an English lecturer, lexicographer, and maker of scientific instruments: see the quotation.
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