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When day and night are approximately the same duration
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equinox
Alternative clues for the word equinox
- When night and day are of the same length
- 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
- September/March date
- French who rejected working within old twelve-hour day
- Occasion at Stonehenge
- Time of year when zebra almost mounts zebu?
- September event
Word definitions for equinox in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Equinox is an Amiga demo group with an active period between the years 1987-1996. The name Equinox was not used from the beginning. In the early days the group were called themselves "The Powerlords", or sometimes "The Powerlords Corporation" (TPL), which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equinox \E"qui*nox\, n. [OE. equinoxium, equenoxium, L. aequinoctium; aequus equal + nox, noctis, night: cf. F. The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 2 See Autumnal equinox , Vernal equinox , under ...
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.