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
Sometimes elongated masses of the substance refused to set equatorially, sometimes they set persistently oblique, and sometimes even, like a magnetic body, from pole to pole.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
In 1844 he conceived the bold idea of constructing a reflector of two feet aperture, and twenty feet focal length, to be mounted equatorially.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
