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equator


equator is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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.

[2] 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 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.


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