equinoctial line

American  

noun

1. celestial equator.

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Etymology

Origin of equinoctial line

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

I met with them both in northern and southern Brazil, and have seen them in collections from Par� directly under the equinoctial line.

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Such rivers abounded from the equinoctial line to the Gulf of St. Michael.

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This land is within the Torrid Zone, and beyond the equinoctial line on the south side, over which the Pole rises from the meridian 5�, beyond every climate.

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Crossing the equinoctial line, Our Artist discovers that the rays of a vertical sun are anything but bracing and cool.

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He was willing to concede that the geographical position of Paradise was not in Mesopotamia, yet he maintained that it was upon the earth, and in the southern hemisphere, near the equinoctial line.

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