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Meanings of equinoctial line in English
Portuguese
equador celeste Catalan
línia equinoccial The great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles.
Synonyms
Examples for "equinoctial"
Examples for "equinoctial"
1
I had forgot about the equinoctial gales, and this caught me unawares.
2
Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year.
3
The heavens and the earth,-everythingin the equinoctial regions, presents an exotic character.
4
The equinoctial storm seemed to have blown itself out by the next morning.
5
Everywhere, even in our Order, survive the equinoctial and solstitial feasts.
1
Ophiuchus is said to be a large constellation that straddles the celestial equator.
2
Referring to the time when the sun passes the celestial equator.
3
The fourth planet from the sun, it is currently sitting just north of the celestial equator.
4
We may remark that the main part of the zodiacal light shifts to the south side of the celestial equator as we cross the line.
5
This is called the Celestial Equator.
Usage of equinoctial line in English
1
The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line.
2
The equinoctial line passes through the centre of it.
3
In the year thirty-six, Cortes sent Grijalva and Alvarado with two ships below the equinoctial line.
4
We proceeded in a south-east direction, crossing the trade winds on our way to the equinoctial line.
5
We lay off and on from that time till the 6th June, when we crossed the equinoctial line.
6
In this way he reached the territory on the equinoctial line, where are now Puerto Viejo and Manta.
7
THE equinoctial line itself is not more imaginary than the line which divided the estates of the three Johns.
8
The island of Serendib being situated on the equinoctial line, the days and nights there are of equal length.
9
The next afternoon we crossed the equinoctial line in longitude 21 degrees 50 minutes west.
10
It lieth under the equinoctial line, and it hath more abundance of gold than any other region of the world.
11
They lie within the tropic of Cancer, and extend from twenty-four degrees north latitude to the equinoctial line, which cuts the islands of Maluco.
12
Between three and four this afternoon, we crossed the equinoctial line, at which time I took an affidavit before Captain Owen for my half-pay.
13
This island extends from the first or second degree on the south of the equinoctial line to about the eighth degree on the north side.
14
We left Mayo on the 4th May at six in the morning, and passed the equinoctial line at the same hour on the 20th.
15
A girdle of red was his Equinoctial Line, giving a compactness to his plumpness.
16
To have the North Pole for a fishing-pole, and the Equinoctial Line for a fishing-line.
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