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Equatorial (disambiguation)
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
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.
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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
Examples of use of equatorial
1. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER TRAVELED TO EQUATORIAL GUINEA Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer recently traveled to Equatorial Guinea.'4; While in Malabo, she met with Equatorial Guinean Foreign Minister Micha Ondo Bile.
2. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, said this when receiving credentials from the DPRK ambassador to Equatorial Guinea on May 24.
3. Jendayi Frazer traveled to Equatorial Guinea Monday, February 13, 2006.
4. Frazer will be accompanied to Equatorial Guinea by Dr.
5. PM MALABO, Equatorial Guinea –– A British ex–military officer faces 30 years in prison if convicted of masterminding a failed coup plot in the oil–rich Central African nation of Equatorial Guinea, prosecutors said Tuesday.