equinoctial
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
equinoctial (not comparable)
- (astronomy) Of or relating to the spring or autumnal equinox.
- an equinoctial gale or storm, i.e. one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world
- (astronomy) Of or relating to the celestial equator.
- (uncommon) Equatorial: Of or relating to the equator of the Earth.
- (relating to the equinox) (uncommon) equinoctal, (archaic) equinoxial
- (relating to the terrestrial equator) See equatorial
equinoctial (plural equinoctials)
- The great circle midway between the celestial poles; the celestial equator.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection ii:
- The scorching beams under the equinoctial, or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, […] cannot avoid or expel this heat, fury, and rage of mortal men.
- (rare) The terrestrial equator.
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