EQUINOCTIAL
\ˈɛkwɪnˌɒkʃə͡l], \ˈɛkwɪnˌɒkʃəl], \ˈɛ_k_w_ɪ_n_ˌɒ_k_ʃ_əl]\
Definitions of EQUINOCTIAL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise 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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Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line.
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Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun.
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Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world.
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Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day and night; as, the equinoctial line.
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Pertaining to the regions or climate of the equinoctial line or equator; in or near that line; as, equinoctial heat; an equinoctial sun.
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Pertaining to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points; as, an equinoctial gale or storm, that is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to the equinox, or to the time of equal day or night.
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The equator of the sky; a storm at the season of equal day and night.
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Equinoctially.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pertaining to the equinoxes, the time of the equinoxes, or to the regions about the equator.
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A great circle in the heavens corresponding to the equator of the earth, so called because when the sun crosses it the days and nights are equal.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Occurring at or pertaining to the equinox.
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A severe storm occurring at or near the equinox.
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The equator.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. The celestial equator—so called, because when the sun is on it the nights and days are of equal length.
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The line that encompasses the world at an equal distance from either pole, to which circle when the sun comes, he makes equal days and nights all over the globe.
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Pertaining to the equinox; happening about the time of the equinoxes; being near the equinoctial line.
By Thomas Sheridan
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