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equatore‧qua‧tor, Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ noun equatorOrigin: 1300-1400 Medieval Latin aequator ‘equalizer’, from Latin aequare ( ➔ EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator - And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.
- At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degrees south of the celestial equator.
- Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.
- It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.
- It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.
- The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.
- The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.
- With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.
the equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Poleon/at/near the equator a small village near the equator |