The great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles.
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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 .
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 .
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