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
In all cases, the line which in a diamagnetic crystal set equatorially, always set itself in an isomorphous magnetic crystal axially.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
Hitherto we have only dealt with the lines of force proceeding from the sun equatorially, which lines form the plane of the ecliptic.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
