équatorial - meaning and definition. What is équatorial
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Equatorial (disambiguation)

Equatorial         
·adj Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.
II. Equatorial ·noun An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.
equatorial         
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¦ adjective of, at, or near the equator.
Derivatives
equatorially adverb
equatorial         
Something that is equatorial is near or at the equator.
...the equatorial island with a hundred and twenty thousand people living there.
ADJ: usu ADJ n

Wikipedia

Equatorial

Equatorial may refer to something related to:

  • Earth's equator
    • the tropics, the Earth's equatorial region
    • tropical climate
  • the Celestial equator
    • equatorial orbit
    • equatorial coordinate system
    • equatorial mount, of telescopes
  • equatorial bond, a type of chemical bond orientation