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When night and day are of the same length
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equinox
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "point at which the sun crosses the earth's equator, making day and night of equal length everywhere," from Old French equinoce (12c.) or directly from Medieval Latin equinoxium "equality of night (and day)," from Latin aequinoctium , usually in ...
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Equinox is a 1973 novel by Samuel R. Delany , and is Delany's first published foray into explicitly sexual material. It tells of a series of erotic and violent encounters in a small American seaport following the arrival of an African-American sea captain. ...
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.