Antarctic

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Antarctic
n. region of the South Pole
 
antarctic
adj. of or pertaining to the South Pole region


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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million square kilometers (5.4 million sq mi), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after  AsiaAfricaNorth America, and South America. Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice, which averages at least 1.6 kilometers (1.0 mi) in thickness.
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Antarctic
Noun
1. the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters
(synonym) Antarctic Zone, South Frigid Zone
(hypernym) Frigid Zone, polar zone
(part-meronym) Antarctica, Antarctic continent
Adjective
1. at or near the south pole
(synonym) south-polar
(similar) polar

 
antarctic
Adjective
1. of or relating to Antarctica
(pertainym) Antarctica, Antarctic continent


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Antarctic
(a.)
Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
  

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South Pole
South Pole In a general cosmic sense, any nether pole wherever situated. However, the different hells mentioned in ancient literatures have other meanings, and are not necessarily connected with the south or nether poles of the celestial globes.
From immemorial antiquity occultly it was taught that the south pole was the vent of the earth, and hence the abode of elemental entities, whether terrestrial or cosmic, or of inferior kinds. Thus is was sometimes called the Pit. "The two poles are called the right and left ends of our globe -- the right being the North Pole -- or the head and feet of the earth. Every beneficent (astral and cosmic) action comes from the North; every lethal influence from the South Pole. They are much connected with and influence 'right' and 'left' hand magic" (SD 2:400n).
Another teaching of theosophy in regard to the poles is that all civilizations originate in the far north of the globe, and through the revolving minor ages of a root-race gravitate gradually and steadily towards the south pole as they approach their end. See also POLESTERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL 


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