EQUATOR
\ɪkwˈe͡ɪtə], \ɪkwˈeɪtə], \ɪ_k_w_ˈeɪ_t_ə]\
Definitions of EQUATOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; "the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres"
By Princeton University
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an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; "the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The imaginary circle which passes round the middle of the earth, everywhere equally distant from the poles and divides it into two hemispheres or parts; a similar line dividing the sphere of the sky in two.
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Equatorial.
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Equatorially.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Equatorial.
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(geog.) A great circle passing round the middle of the globe, and dividing it into two equal parts: (astr.) the equinoctial.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A line encircling a globular body, equidistant at all points from the two poles; the periphery of a plane cutting a sphere at the midpoint of, and at right angles to, its axis.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A great circle of the terrestrial globe, equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth into two hemispheres, the north and the south; a great circle in the heavens marked out by the extension to them of the plane of the earth's equator.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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