It means "of or pertaining to terrestrial magnetism".
This word, with its obvious etymology, simply means "of or pertaining to sexual love; amatory, esp tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement" (Shorter Oxford Dictionary).
But the OED says "caloric" means "of or pertaining to heat"; "calorific" is the word for "relating to the number of calories contained in food".
Machinal means of or pertaining to machines.
The 2008 financial collapse resulted in $29 trillion of federal bailout commitments, the partial nationalization of nine major banks, and the "means of production" (pertaining to some of the biggest corporations on the planet) partially owned by the U.S. government.
The word "funerary" strictly means "of or pertaining to a funeral or burial", but there is a long tradition in English of applying it not only to the practices and artefacts directly associated with funeral rites, but also to a wider range of more permanent memorials to the dead.
Each dimension is computed as means of the pertaining 8 items, scored on a four-point Likert scale.
The numerical simulation of viscous flow problems is discussed by means of several examples pertaining to the flow in a two-roll mill, semi-conductor crystal growth, coextrusion and injection molding.
"Tawdry", a corruption of "Saint Audrey", now means "pertaining to the nature of cheap and gaudy finery".
Reader Question Barbara Orris asks: "The word avuncular means 'of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle.' Is there a word that means pertaining to or characteristic of an aunt?" A handful of adjectives related to aunts have been recorded in English, though none are as common as the male counterpart, avuncular.
