equinoctial line

American  

noun

1. celestial equator.

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Etymology

Origin of equinoctial line

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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equinoctial line

This time-honored custom of introducing to old Neptune and his suite the persons who, for the first time in their lives, cross the equinoctial line, is now nearly abolished.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

Called also the equinoctial line, or simply the line, being an imaginary circle round the earth, dividing the globe into two equal parts, and equally distant from both poles.

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 Sir Edward Belcher

Part of this continent is in the Torrid Zone, beyond the equinoctial line towards the South Pole.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas

We took possession of it, in the name of his most serene majesty, and found it to be pleasant and verdant, and situated five degrees south of the equinoctial line.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober

All of these provinces are situated directly under the equinoctial line between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; but they are two hundred fifty leagues nearer our tropic than the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith