a.either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone.
Tropic of Cancer proper noun (geography) The parallel of latitude 23°30′north of the equator, marking the northern boundary of the tropics; the sun is directly overhead at the summer solstice. [..] + Add English-Chinese dictionary 北回歸線 proper the parallel of latitude 23°30′...
Tropic of Capricorn, latitude about 23 degrees 27 minutes south of the terrestrial Equator. This latitude corresponds to the southernmost declination of the Sun’s ecliptic to the celestial equator. At the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, arou
"turns back" after appearing furthest north or south of the equator. The word was extended 1520s in geography to the corresponding latitudes on the earth's surface (23 degrees 28 minutes north and south).The tropicsmeaning "region between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn" is attested by ...
The lowland rainforests of Meghalaya, India represent the westernmost limit of the rainforests north of the Tropic of Cancer. These forests, on the Shillong plateau, are akin to Whitmore's ‘tropical lowland evergreen rain
1. (Physical Geography) (sometimes capital) either of the parallel lines of latitude at about 23°N (tropic of Cancer) and 23°S (tropic of Capricorn) of the equator 2. (Physical Geography) the tropics (often capital) that part of the earth's surface between the tropics of Cancer and ...