climaticadj.²

Brit.

/klʌɪˈmatɪk/, U.S.

/klaɪˈmædɪk/

Forms: 1700s– climatic, 1800s– climactic (nonstandard).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: climate n.¹, -ic suffix.

Etymology: < climate n.¹ + -ic suffix. Compare earlier climatical adj., and also climatico- comb. form. In sense 2 originally after German climatisch (18th cent.; now klimatisch).In form climactic by association with climactic adj.; perhaps compare also climateric , variant of climacteric adj., and also earlier climatic adj.¹

1. Of or relating to climate or weather.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate

climatical1641

climatic1747

climatorial1818

climatological1828

climatal1832

climacteric1837

climatologic1845

1747 J. Wheeler Mod. Druid v. 163 Having spoken of..a defect of our clime in respect to varying warmth and cold; I am come now on the contrary to speak more particularly of a climatic excellence of ours.

1782 J. Cookson Thoughts on Polygamy ii. iii. 339 Wise political and religious regulations, would easily overcome any difficulties arising from climatic influences over debased minds.

1800 T. Churchill tr. J. G. Herder Outl. Philos. Hist. Man x. iii. 265 As we proceed southward we must be satisfied, if we find..rather a progressive climatic change of national features.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xix. 242 No climatic action has sensibly changed the hues of the lava and scoriæ.

1916 D. Haig Diary 16 Nov. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 256 All the Allies will continue to press the Enemy throughout the winter as far as climatic conditions permit.

1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xv. 478 There is insufficient data as yet to compare the vegetational productivity of different climatic zones.

1993 J. M. Strock in Proc. Second Amer. Conf. Preparing for Climate Change xx. 684 The treaty did not address the possibility of climactic change, focusing solely on the familiar ‘extraordinary drought’.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 234 Many possible climatic events could raise the specter of starvation: a short, cool, foggy summer, or a wet August, that decreased hay production.

2. Characteristic of a region with a particular climate; influenced by or arising as a result of prevalent weather conditions.

ΚΠ

1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art §195. 159 The external, climatic [Ger. climatischen]..tendencies..of this style of architecture.

1860 P. L. Sclater Let. 11 Feb. in C. Darwin Corr. (1993) VIII. 78 Sylvicola aureola..is..perhaps only a ‘climatic variety’ or as the Germans say ‘climatisches Abart’.

1863 tr. T. Waitz Introd. Anthropol. i. 125 Negroes of the third and fourth generation, who, after being acclimatized in North America had returned to Africa,..became subject to the same climatic diseases as other unacclimatized individuals.

1919 C. W. Eliot Let. 25 July in T. S. Eliot Lett. (1988) I. 323 Literature seems to me highly climatic and national as yet.

1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 403 Isolated fatal cases of encephalitis have been reported..caused by viruses such as those of simple herpes (wind-blister), of lymphogranuloma venereum (climatic bubo), and of mumps.

1971 Taxon 20 685 Ulander..took for granted the existence of populations of different hardiness among the wild-growing pasture species, i.e. the existence of different climatic varieties.

3. Of or relating to the temperature, humidity, and airflow in the interior of a building, enclosure, car, etc., esp. where these are artificially regulated; (of an enclosed space) subject to such regulation. Cf. climate control n. (b) at climate n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1946 Man 46 91 Europeans in artificial tropical surroundings (in climatic chambers) show a definite improvement in their ability to work in these conditions after several days' repeated exposure.

1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 63/1 (advt.) The Fisons Climatic Cabinet reproduces these conditions accurately without ever leaving the laboratory.

1993 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 46 150 Specific climatic parameters were specified for all venues, and where necessary appropriate measures were taken to make sure that they were kept within these limits.

2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 Standard specification includes semi-automatic climatic control, electric windows,..and adjustable door mirrors.

Compounds

climatic change n. = climate change n. at climate n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1846 C. Darwin Let. 3 Sept. in Corr. (1987) III. 339 Horner (private ) tells me that he has just remonstrated with him, for not having mentioned Lyell's views on climatic changes.

1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes iii. 48 The plains were as thousands of years of geological and climatic change had made them.

climatic climax n. Ecology (in the theory of F. E. Clements) a stable ecological community characterized as the typical end point of succession in a particular climatic region.

ΚΠ

1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession vi. 107 Such apparent climaxes are always subordinate to the normal developmental or climatic climax, and may accordingly be distinguished as subclimaxes.

1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest iii. 40 Since the Tropical Rain forest is a climatic climax, it must, by definition, be in a state of equilibrium.

1998 R. J. Huggett Fund. Biogeogr. vii. 179 The disequilibrium view rose to stardom in the early 1970s, when some ecologists dared to suggest that succession leads nowhere in particular, that there are no long-lasting climatic climaxes.

climatic optimum n. [with sense (b) compare German Klima-Optimum (1909 or earlier)] (a) a set of climatic conditions which are most favourable for a particular species or for human comfort and health (rare); (b) Palaeontology and Archaeology any of various historical or (usually) prehistoric periods characterized by comparatively warm and dry conditions compared to the preceding and following periods, spec. (also Climatic Optimum) such a period which occurred in northern latitudes in the early Holocene, after the last glaciation (approx. 9000 to 5000 years ago, but varying with location).

ΚΠ

1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession 98 It is the mutual and progressive interaction of habitat and community, by which extreme conditions yield to a climatic optimum.

1923 Geografisker Annaler 5 235 The Scandinavian phyto-palaeontologists have stated that during the climatic optimum the summer-temperature was some two degrees higher than nowadays.

1963 R. O. Muir tr. M. Schwarzbach Climates of Past v. 62 In Greenland, Franz Josef Land, and Spitzbergen, raised beaches dating from the postglacial Climatic Optimum, carry the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, which no longer survives in these latitudes.

1983 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 10 456/2 This period was followed by a drier interval during the succeeding climatic optimum from 500 b.c. to 600 a.c.

1999 New Scientist 22 May 39/2 Temperatures were a little warmer than today during the ‘altithermal’ or ‘climatic optimum’ between 9000 and 6000 years ago.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	climatic
释义	† climaticadj.¹ Forms: 1500s climatike. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Spanish, combined with an English element. Etymons: Spanish climatérico , -ic suffix. Etymology: Apparently < climat- (in Spanish climatérico climacteric adj.) + -ic suffix. Compare climate n.²Compare quot. 1638 at climactic adj. Obsolete. rare. = climacteric adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [adjective] > climacteric > relating to climacteric climacterical1571 climatic1574 scalary1588 climacteric1601 clymacht1685 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 259 The good Constable did then goe in the yeare Climatike [Sp. año climaterico]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2021). climaticadj.² Brit. /klʌɪˈmatɪk/, U.S. /klaɪˈmædɪk/ Forms: 1700s– climatic, 1800s– climactic (nonstandard). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: climate n.¹, -ic suffix. Etymology: < climate n.¹ + -ic suffix. Compare earlier climatical adj., and also climatico- comb. form. In sense 2 originally after German climatisch (18th cent.; now klimatisch).In form climactic by association with climactic adj.; perhaps compare also climateric , variant of climacteric adj., and also earlier climatic adj.¹ 1. Of or relating to climate or weather. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate climatical1641 climatic1747 climatorial1818 climatological1828 climatal1832 climacteric1837 climatologic1845 1747 J. Wheeler Mod. Druid v. 163 Having spoken of..a defect of our clime in respect to varying warmth and cold; I am come now on the contrary to speak more particularly of a climatic excellence of ours. 1782 J. Cookson Thoughts on Polygamy ii. iii. 339 Wise political and religious regulations, would easily overcome any difficulties arising from climatic influences over debased minds. 1800 T. Churchill tr. J. G. Herder Outl. Philos. Hist. Man x. iii. 265 As we proceed southward we must be satisfied, if we find..rather a progressive climatic change of national features. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xix. 242 No climatic action has sensibly changed the hues of the lava and scoriæ. 1916 D. Haig Diary 16 Nov. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 256 All the Allies will continue to press the Enemy throughout the winter as far as climatic conditions permit. 1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xv. 478 There is insufficient data as yet to compare the vegetational productivity of different climatic zones. 1993 J. M. Strock in Proc. Second Amer. Conf. Preparing for Climate Change xx. 684 The treaty did not address the possibility of climactic change, focusing solely on the familiar ‘extraordinary drought’. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 234 Many possible climatic events could raise the specter of starvation: a short, cool, foggy summer, or a wet August, that decreased hay production. 2. Characteristic of a region with a particular climate; influenced by or arising as a result of prevalent weather conditions. ΚΠ 1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art §195. 159 The external, climatic [Ger. climatischen]..tendencies..of this style of architecture. 1860 P. L. Sclater Let. 11 Feb. in C. Darwin Corr. (1993) VIII. 78 Sylvicola aureola..is..perhaps only a ‘climatic variety’ or as the Germans say ‘climatisches Abart’. 1863 tr. T. Waitz Introd. Anthropol. i. 125 Negroes of the third and fourth generation, who, after being acclimatized in North America had returned to Africa,..became subject to the same climatic diseases as other unacclimatized individuals. 1919 C. W. Eliot Let. 25 July in T. S. Eliot Lett. (1988) I. 323 Literature seems to me highly climatic and national as yet. 1946 Amer. Naturalist 80 403 Isolated fatal cases of encephalitis have been reported..caused by viruses such as those of simple herpes (wind-blister), of lymphogranuloma venereum (climatic bubo), and of mumps. 1971 Taxon 20 685 Ulander..took for granted the existence of populations of different hardiness among the wild-growing pasture species, i.e. the existence of different climatic varieties. 3. Of or relating to the temperature, humidity, and airflow in the interior of a building, enclosure, car, etc., esp. where these are artificially regulated; (of an enclosed space) subject to such regulation. Cf. climate control n. (b) at climate n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1946 Man 46 91 Europeans in artificial tropical surroundings (in climatic chambers) show a definite improvement in their ability to work in these conditions after several days' repeated exposure. 1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 63/1 (advt.) The Fisons Climatic Cabinet reproduces these conditions accurately without ever leaving the laboratory. 1993 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 46 150 Specific climatic parameters were specified for all venues, and where necessary appropriate measures were taken to make sure that they were kept within these limits. 2005 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 Standard specification includes semi-automatic climatic control, electric windows,..and adjustable door mirrors. Compounds climatic change n. = climate change n. at climate n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1846 C. Darwin Let. 3 Sept. in Corr. (1987) III. 339 Horner (private ) tells me that he has just remonstrated with him, for not having mentioned Lyell's views on climatic changes. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes iii. 48 The plains were as thousands of years of geological and climatic change had made them. climatic climax n. Ecology (in the theory of F. E. Clements) a stable ecological community characterized as the typical end point of succession in a particular climatic region. ΚΠ 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession vi. 107 Such apparent climaxes are always subordinate to the normal developmental or climatic climax, and may accordingly be distinguished as subclimaxes. 1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest iii. 40 Since the Tropical Rain forest is a climatic climax, it must, by definition, be in a state of equilibrium. 1998 R. J. Huggett Fund. Biogeogr. vii. 179 The disequilibrium view rose to stardom in the early 1970s, when some ecologists dared to suggest that succession leads nowhere in particular, that there are no long-lasting climatic climaxes. climatic optimum n. [with sense (b) compare German Klima-Optimum (1909 or earlier)] (a) a set of climatic conditions which are most favourable for a particular species or for human comfort and health (rare); (b) Palaeontology and Archaeology any of various historical or (usually) prehistoric periods characterized by comparatively warm and dry conditions compared to the preceding and following periods, spec. (also Climatic Optimum) such a period which occurred in northern latitudes in the early Holocene, after the last glaciation (approx. 9000 to 5000 years ago, but varying with location). ΚΠ 1916 F. E. Clements Plant Succession 98 It is the mutual and progressive interaction of habitat and community, by which extreme conditions yield to a climatic optimum. 1923 Geografisker Annaler 5 235 The Scandinavian phyto-palaeontologists have stated that during the climatic optimum the summer-temperature was some two degrees higher than nowadays. 1963 R. O. Muir tr. M. Schwarzbach Climates of Past v. 62 In Greenland, Franz Josef Land, and Spitzbergen, raised beaches dating from the postglacial Climatic Optimum, carry the edible mussel, Mytilus edulis, which no longer survives in these latitudes. 1983 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 10 456/2 This period was followed by a drier interval during the succeeding climatic optimum from 500 b.c. to 600 a.c. 1999 New Scientist 22 May 39/2 Temperatures were a little warmer than today during the ‘altithermal’ or ‘climatic optimum’ between 9000 and 6000 years ago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1574adj.²1747
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