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When day and night have the same length
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equinox
Alternative clues for the word equinox
- Annual moments when day and night both last about 12 hours everywhere
- March event
- Biannual event is mostly horse and bull
- Either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length
- (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
- When day and night are approximately the same duration
- Time of year when zebra almost mounts zebu?
- When night and day are of equal length
- When day and night are of equal length
Word definitions for equinox in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Dominic knows that in the 1960s the equinox had progressed to Aquarius. ▪ Only during the time of the spring and autumn equinoxes do our aquariums have a tropical day. ▪ The equinox had surely passed already, and perhaps the ...
Usage examples of equinox.
The equinoctial year ends at the moment when the Sun and Moon, at the Vernal Equinox, are united with Orion, the Star of Horus, placed in the Heavens under Taurus.
Despite constant punishment, tough old Equinox was still standing up to the torture of unseen attack time after time.
On this particular day, at this hour, the little Equinox had her moment in the sun.
On the viewscreen they could see the shape of Equinox, about half the size of Voyager, engulfed in the fracturing bulb of her own shields.
Sniggering guilt came over him that the Equinox crew had gone through this torment all alone out here.
The Equinox is secure, but its primary systems are still badly damaged.
There were crew moving everywhere lately, everybody busy with work about the newly discovered Starfleet ship, and the Voyager was more crowded with the Equinox crew on board.
Inside, Tuvok, Seven, and Maxwell Burke were at the console, studying graphics of both Voyager and Equinox on the large domescreen.
She was expecting the Equinox crew to have to be here longer than they thought they might, judging by the amount of damage turning up on that ship, and they should be allowed to feel as if Voyager had become their home away from hell.
The Equinox crew and their officers had been shoved headlong into the bad times.
She and Voyager had experienced their logful of horrors, but few of them had sustained for the sheer months on end what Equinox had dealt with.
The contamination in the critical areas of Equinox had staved off analysis of the area efficiently, giving him time to think of what to do.
On Equinox even the injured had to fight Being able to actually rest-well, that was gravy.
The cutaway graphics of Voyager and Equinox showed every deck and section of the ships, highlighted with a complex grid of force fields, under attack in what seemed a random pattern but apparently was not.
Engineer Gilmore from the Equinox flitted her gaze nervously between Janeway and her own captain.