e|qua|tor

e|qua|tor
e|qua|tor «ih KWAY tuhr», noun.
1. an imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole: »

The United States is north of the equator; Australia is south of it. Crossed the equator…I now for the first time felt at liberty…to call myself a son of Neptune (Richard Henry Dana).

2. a similarly situated circle on any heavenly body.
3. a great circle (celestial equator) of the celestial sphere, the plane of which is perpendicular to the axis of the earth.
4. Aeronautics. the horizontal circle about a balloon at the place of its greatest width.
5. Biology. = equatorial plane. (Cf. ↑equatorial plane)
╂[< Medieval Latin aequator (diei et noctis) equalizer (of day and night) < Latin aequāre; see etym. under equate (Cf. ↑equate)]

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