Crossword clues for equinoctial
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equator \E*qua"tor\, n. [L. aequator one who equalizes: cf. F.
(Geog.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
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(Astron.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.
Equator of the sun or Equator of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution.
Magnetic equator. See Aclinic.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to an equinox. 2 (context astronomy English) Of or relating to a celestial or terrestrial equator. 3 Relating to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points. n. 1 The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator. 2 (context rare English) The terrestrial equator.
WordNet
adj. relating to the vicinity of the equator
relating to an equinox (when the lengths or night and day are equal)
n. the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles [syn: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line]
Usage examples of "equinoctial".
The colors of the four are White, Blue, Crimson, and Purple, and the banners bear the images of the Bull, the Lion, the Man, and the Eagle, the Constellations answering 2500 years before our era to the Equinoctial and Solstitial points: to which belong four stars, Aldebaran, Regulus, Fomalhaut, and Antares.
The Persians, in the cave where the Mysteries of Mithras were celebrated, fixed the seat of that God, Father of Generation, or Demiourgos, near the equinoctial point of Spring, with the Northern portion of the world on his right, and the Southern on his left.
The Sun does not arrive at the same moment in each year at the equinoctial point on the equator.
In SCORPIO, ANTARES, of the 1st magnitude, and remarkably red, was one of the four great Stars, FOMALHAUT, in Cetus, ALDEBARAN in Taurus, REGULUS in Leo, and ANTARES, that formerly answered to the Solstitial and Equinoctial points, and were much noticed by astronomers.
The intersection of the Zodiac by the colures at the Equinoctial and Solstitial points, fixed four periods, each of which has, by one or more nations, and in some cases by the same nation at different periods, been taken for the commencement of the year.
Nile was held to receive its fertilizing power from the combined action of the equinoctial Sun and the new Moon, meeting in Taurus.
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.
Everywhere, even in our Order, survive the equinoctial and solstitial feasts.
As the sun, arriving at the equinoctial point of Spring, drawing nearer to us, increases the length of the days, that period seems most appropriate for those ceremonies.
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.
Portuguese who go to Guinea which is below the equinoctial line are able to navigate because they go along the coast.
He says that it is a miraculous thing that the Sovereigns of Castile should have lands so near the equinoctial as 6 degrees, Ysabela being distant from the said line 24 degrees.
Indus in Ethiopia as being more than four and twenty degrees from the equinoctial line.
Its astronomical and leonine symbolism does not make any sense unless it was built as an equinoctial marker for the Age of Leo.