adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a terrestrial channel (= not using satellite )
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Channel 5 is the newest terrestrial channel in the UK.
terrestrial television British English (= television that is not broadcast using a satellite or cable )
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Many of these matches are not available on terrestrial television.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
planet
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There are three main ways in which the terrestrial planets could have acquired their volatiles.
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The inner edge of the belt, the part closest to Mars and the other terrestrial planets , is compositionally complex.
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Finally, Mercury and the Moon may be much less thoroughly outgassed than the other terrestrial planets .
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The most likely fate is to collide with one of the terrestrial planets .
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Through all these means small bodies can bring to the terrestrial planets volatiles in sufficient abundance to match the observations.
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This astonishing discovery of polar ice on Mercury makes it clear that impacts play a major role on all the terrestrial planets .
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The mean density of Mercury indicates that its interior is substantially different from the interiors of the other terrestrial planets .
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Thus the four terrestrial planets are all affected in important but very different ways by comet and asteroid impacts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A statistical analysis based on this data suggests that well over half the stars are being orbited by rocky terrestrial material.
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Development of this approach in experimental closed ecosystems promises big terrestrial payoffs from this form of space biotechnology.
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Information from the planetary probes indicates that all the terrestrial planets have undergone differentiation, but they have followed different evolutionary paths.
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Migrating continents I have proposed four simple distributional patterns for both marine and terrestrial animals which involve changes in time.
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Rain forests are home to numerous species, terrestrial and epiphytes.
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Such terrestrial plants could certainly cause harm the water quality.
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The cometary events responsible for these multiple episodes of fragmentation are clearly important to the terrestrial planets.
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The incorporation of the gorilla male into a more-or-less permanent party is probably associated with certain benefits in relation to the terrestrial feeding niche.