equatorial
adjective
of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
equatorially
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a word derived from
equatorial.
Example Sentences
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On Thursday, the NBA’s most slapstick franchise stepped on an equatorially long line of rakes and traded 23-year-old star center Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2019
Many Nigerian students, like their colonial counterparts in Asia and the rest of Africa, have long felt equatorially Oxonian about their education.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Earth was forty-three kilometers stouter when measured equatorially than when measured from top to bottom around the poles.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
A glass so mounted that it enables the observer to follow the stars as they move equatorially.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
He then suspended a bar of the glass between two poles; the bar retreated when the poles were excited, and set its length equatorially or at right angles to the line joining them.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John
