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equator
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context often “the Equator” English) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere. 2 A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Medieval Latin aequator (diei et noctis) "equalizer (of day and night)," agent noun from Latin aequare "make equal" (see equate ). When the sun is on the celestial equator, twice annually, day and night are of equal length. Sense of "celestial ...
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Equator is a 2006 BBC television documentary series in three parts charting presenter Simon Reeve's journey along the Equator through Africa, Asia and South America. He travelled through Gabon , Republic of the Congo , Democratic Republic of the Congo , ...
Usage examples of equator.
His specialized internal biota seem more closely related to the kinds of organisms one would be likely to encounter in the vicinity of the equator.
Sun, like all other visible stars, is gaseous and not a solid, it rotates on its axis at sharply different speeds, depending on how far from the solar equator a spot is.
It was like being in the Doldrums, that area of no wind near the Equator, where sailing ships are becalmed for days and weeks, waiting for the tiniest breeze to pipe up, fill their canvas and drive them onward.
The Sun does not arrive at the same moment in each year at the equinoctial point on the equator.
It was originally a simple Cross, symbolizing the equator and equinoctial Colure, and the four elements proceeding from a common centre.
Caduceus originally symbolized the equator and equinoctial Colure, 503-u.
Much more of it was taken up by looming berths for the tugs and tankers which placidly chugged from icy pole to equator across the watery expanses of Habara, taking or delivering the supplies which the settlements deemed necessary for civilised life, or collecting the returning fallen bulk cargoes.
Much more of it was taken up by looming berths for the tugs and tankers that placidly chugged from icy pole to equator across the watery expanses of Habara, taking or delivering the supplies that the settlements deemed necessary for civilized life, or collecting the returning fallen bulk cargoes.
At least eighty kilotons mass, with extravagant ship-bays and airlocks, old-fashioned cooling vanes around the equator .
On the other hand, the temperate productions, after migrating nearer to the equator, though they will have been placed under somewhat new conditions, will have suffered less.
Or maybe it was an earthquake drill, like the kind they had on Nerol near the equator.
Going polarward from the equator, we first encounter these local and temporary upcastings of the air near the margin of the tropical belt.
Furthermore, this distribution of temperatures tends to reduce the total wind energy by diminishing the trades and counter trades which are due to the variations of heat which are encountered in passing polarward from the equator.
Here is the moon at her perigee, in syzygy, and near the equator, as I showed you last night, and you smoked it directly, did you not?
The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five Equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between.