Trope
The trope or trope is:
- in rhetoric a style figure, whereby a related figurative term is used for an expression, see trope (rhetoric)
- in ancient skepticism an argument against the possibility of secure knowledge, see Skeptical Tropics
- In Gregorian chant a melismatic or texted addition or the text of a melism, see trope (Gregorian chant)
- also a melisma in the Jewish liturgy, see Teamim
- a way to organize a twelve-tone row, developed by Josef Matthias Hauer, see tropical theory
- a particularized property in philosophy, see trope (philosophy)
tropical also refers to:
- Tropics , geographical latitudes and climate zones of the earth
- Tropical month , a measure of time in astronomy related to the vernal equinox
- Tropical geometry , a relatively new branch of algebraic geometry and thus mathematics
Trope is the family name of the following people:
- Yaacov Trope (* 1945), psychologist
See also:
Wiktionary: tropical - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: trope - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
