tropic of cancer

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   a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator

   Broadertropic

Questions about tropic of cancer

What does tropic of cancer mean?

tropic of cancer means "a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the north of the equator".

Is tropic of cancer a common word?

tropic of cancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.