How to use "terrestrial" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "terrestrial" in popular movie and book plots

  • According to Johnson, death is an alternate universe where the evils of terrestrial life throughout all history abrade the walls of space-time, leaving behind trillions of minuscule punctures and abrasions in the same way sound is recorded on a vinyl record.  - The Wake of Dick Johnson (2016 film)
  • The cosmonauts take the seeds of terrestrial cultivated plants with them.  - Dunno on the Moon
  • On the surface of the planet is detected life: unknown animals, but very similar to terrestrial counterparts, and vegetation resembling that of planet Earth.  - The Lesson (1987 film)
  • It also shows the routine, monotonous, and conventional life on the planet and its absurd reality as a parody of terrestrial culture in Spain and Western popular culture.  - Goomer
  • Two microbes are found to be coccus-shaped supergerms capable of surviving in absolute zero and have the potential to grow exponentially in terrestrial conditions.  - Virus (novel)
  • Besides the dish array, there was one terrestrial planet in the star system that bore a startling resemblance to Earth in terms of physical characteristics.  - The Engines of God
  • The strain of this new situation leads him to take dr Dale's drug a second time, and under its influence he has a second vision, this time of the terrestrial globe in a state of spiritual ferment to which the world's clergy is not ministering.  - The Soul of a Bishop
  • They discover that while the Skitters have tough leathery skin and carapace armor, their internal structure isn't that much different from terrestrial vertebrates, including an endoskeleton, cardio-vascular system, and nervous system.  - What Hides Beneath
  • The terrestrial beings are only the pawns they'll use to win a godly battle.  - The Idhún's Memories
  • Gonsales discovers that order is maintained in this apparently utopian state by swapping delinquent children with terrestrial children.  - The Man in the Moone
  • The EDF defends a fictional city called New Detroit against an alien invasion, aided by bio-engineered terrestrial insects.  - Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
  • They meet Paruparu, a "sky human" who explains that they are in the Kingdom of Clouds, a kingdom located in various clouds in the sky, hidden from the terrestrial humans and inhabited by humans who resorted to live in the sky after they had been disturbed by how other humans caused much destruction to Earth.  - Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
  • A local Ufologist claims extra terrestrial involvement but DCI Tom Barnaby looks for a more plausible explanation.  - Electric Vendetta
  • One appears to be a terrestrial world and they move toward it.  - A Talent for War
  • Later, having determined the best terrestrial transmitting position to be in the Himalayas, Virgil and Brains take off in Thunderbird 2.  - Sun Probe
  • This dangerous and profitable lifestyle acquaints her with legal authorities as well as the Belters—a group of Zen Buddhists (known as The Order of the Cuckoo) who have populated and mined both Earth's Moon and the asteroid belt that lies between the terrestrial planets and the Jovian worlds of the outer solar system.  - Wheelers (novel)
  • There he will serve a three-year tour of duty with an unnamed terrestrial military group while receiving training in gravitational engineering.  - Hallucination (short story)
  • The Plants are massive and rapidly out-compete terrestrial flora, forming a monoculture.  - The Genocides
  • But he brings with him back to Earth a renewed determination to contribute to the effort to make a terrestrial Utopia: "[H]e belonged now soul and body to the Revolution, to the Great Revolution that is afoot on Earth; that marches and will never desist nor rest again until old Earth is one city and Utopia set up therein.  - Men Like Gods
  • Darrow also reveals that the Black Palace can, if its mechanisms are released, become a wind-powered war machine, similar to a terrestrial warship.  - The Waterless Sea
  • Jason, who has developed an acute form of multiple sclerosis that is incurable by terrestrial medicine, takes a Martian bioengineering product that extends his life by decades, putting him into a fourth stage of life past adulthood.  - Spin (novel)
  • Minerva is not omniscient however; Metastasis also reveals her to be working within the limits of satellite imagery and terrestrial radio, and at several points admits to the player that she does not know what lies ahead, and is exploring with them.  - Minerva (video game)
  • As the chief Gaiaologist of the Ark, Carol Jeanne is responsible for managing the extensive terraforming their new planet will require, integrating the terrestrial species needed for the colonists' survival with the planet's existing ecology.  - Lovelock (novel)
  • People argued that falling space debris caused it, but others felt that the unusual movement of terrestrial magnetism caused the light.  - Great Dangaioh
  • Zane again locates the radio signal, but it is drowned out by a terrestrial signal from a Mexican radio station.  - The Arrival (1996 film)
  • The film deals with a young farmer's son named Billy, who does not appreciate his terrestrial life, and instead wishes to explore outer space.  - 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
  • He advises Dutton to breathe rapidly as well, but then observes a rat in good health alongside Dutton, meaning that the organism has mutated and become benign to terrestrial life.  - The Andromeda Strain (film)
  • In the far future, the Earth's magnetic field has cut out, and humanity has abandoned the planet, leaving it to multiple species of sentient robots, which after centuries of evolving look (and in some cases behave) similar to the now extinct terrestrial animals.  - Metalzoic
  • With barely any oxygen left in the Earth's atmosphere, all terrestrial life on the planet perished.  - Man After Man
  • Upon arriving on Earth, Ultraman Neos secretly merges with Genki Kagura to help HEART (Hi-tech Earth Alert Rescue Team) fight monsters both of terrestrial and extraterrestrial origin.  - Ultraman Neos
  • Clemens is also motivated in his quest by his desire to be reunited with his terrestrial wife, Livy.  - The Fabulous Riverboat
  • From them the crew discovers that most of the Phylosians were nearly wiped out by a mild terrestrial disease that acted as a plague, brought to the planet by dr Stavos Keniclius (voiced by James Doohan), a Terran scientist who had survived Earth's Eugenics Wars.  - The Infinite Vulcan
  • Each house exhibits the culture of its terrestrial ancestor: Liberty of 1920s United States, Bretonia of Victorian era United Kingdom, Kusari of Shogunate era Japan, and Rheinland of Second Industrial Revolution Germany.  - Freelancer (video game)
  • He is unwillingly hauled down corridors full of terrestrial detritus such as shoes and keys before arriving in a bizarre examination room.  - Fire in the Sky
  • One of its attractions is a cruise across one of the lunar seas, named the Sea of Thirst, (located within the Sinus Roris) filled with an extremely fine dust, a fine powder far drier than the contents of a terrestrial desert and which almost flows like water, instead of the common regolith which covers most of the lunar surface.  - A Fall of Moondust
  • The same version was used for later terrestrial broadcasts when the special aired on Christmas in the years 1998, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.  - Blackadder's Christmas Carol
  • The colonists build a town on the island of Camelot and begin growing crops and stocking the nearby waters with terrestrial species of fish to complement the samlon, a local aquatic species.  - The Legacy of Heorot
  • The microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life and appears to have a crystalline structure, but lacks DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids, yet it directly transforms matter to energy and vice versa.  - The Andromeda Strain
  • It, and by assumption the others, are powered by natural internal batteries (much like those of terrestrial electric eels) and possess some intelligence.  - Rendezvous with Rama
  • Yamane presents his findings in Tokyo, estimating that Godzilla is tall and is evolved from an ancient sea creature becoming a terrestrial animal.  - Godzilla (1954 film)

Example sentences for "terrestrial" in interesting articles

  • Credit: NASA/Matt Rodell › Larger image The averaging function (spatial weighting) used to estimate terrestrial water storage changes from GRACE data is mapped.  - NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water (2009)
  • Take a terrestrial analogy.  - Meet the NASA scientist devising a starship warp drive
  • “We really want to open up low-Earth orbit to the terrestrial markets, and I want the private sector to explore,” he said. Until now the most successful ventures in low-Earth orbit have focused on information, with remote-sensing satellites and communications satellites transferring data.  - NASA official warns private sector: We’re moving on from low-Earth orbit
  • The over-enthusiastic discoverer had found a deformed terrestrial snake on a beach, and took it to be the juvenile form of the sea serpent that had been causing a stir out in the bay.  - Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility
  • Two, it is totally silent on the issue of terrestrial anti-satellite weapons, like the ones that China tested in 2007 and again in July 2014.  - War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever
  • Air pollution has made the atmosphere less transparent and more reflective, and high levels of terrestrial illumination have washed out the stars overhead—a phenomenon called “sky glow.” Anyone who has flown across the country on a clear night has seen the landscape ablaze with artificial lights, especially in urban areas.  - The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution (2007)
  • Ten years later, Sharp Corporation in Japan produced one of the first viable solar modules for terrestrial applications.  - A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark
  • A research team led by Prof Graham Pearson of the University of Alberta, Canada, studied a diamond from a 100-million-year-old kimberlite found in Juina, Brazil, as part of a wider project.They noticed that it contained a mineral, ringwoodite, that is only thought to form between 410km and 660km beneath the Earth's surface, showing just how deep some diamonds originate.Buried oceansWhile ringwoodite has previously been found in meteorites, this is the first time a terrestrial ringwoodite has been seen.  - Mineral hints at bright blue rocks deep in the Earth
  • There’s also terrestrial connectivity into Turkey to the north, but those paths have not been reliable in recent months. Update (01:00 GMT, 30 Nov):The last 5 networks belonging to Syria, a set of smaller netblocks previously advertised by Tata Communications, have been torn down and are no longer routed.  - Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

  • There are many terrestrial challenges to Internet connectivity—jungles, archipelagos, mountains.  - Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access

  • Data are transmitted back and forth between terrestrial antennas and satellites in geosynchronous orbits about 22,000 miles up.  - The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet
  • Treating internet radio \u003Ci\u003Eexactly the same way as terrestrial radio \u003C\u002Fi\u003Esmacked of piracy—because, well, in a time of heightened aggression and extreme rhetoric, anything involving music and the internet smacked of the radical.\u003C\u002Fp\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo Congress took the middle path.  - Internet Radio Copyright Is Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer

Meaning of "terrestrial" in English

  • operating or living or growing on land
  • of this earth
    Examples
    - fleeting sublunary pleasures
    - the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball
  • concerned with the world or worldly matters
    Example
    - he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
  • of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
    Examples
    - the planetary tilt
    - this terrestrial ball
  • of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air

Meaning of "terrestrial" in Hindi

  • पार्थिव ( Parthiv, paarthiv, parthiw)
  • सांसारिक ( Sansarik, saansaarik)
  • पृथ्वी सम्बन्धी ( Prithvi sambandhi, prithvee sambandhee, prithwi sambandhi)
  • सांसारिक
  • लौकिक ( Laukik)
  • भौमिक ( Bhaumik)
  • भौम ( Bhaum)

Synonyms of "terrestrial"

  • terrene
  • sublunary
  • tellurian
  • sublunar
  • telluric
  • mundane
  • planetary

Antonyms of "terrestrial"

  • amphibious
  • aquatic

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