tropic of capricorn

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

   Broadertropic

Questions about tropic of capricorn

What does tropic of capricorn mean?

tropic of capricorn means "a line of latitude about 23 degrees to the south of the equator".

Is tropic of capricorn a common word?

tropic of capricorn 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.