Equator is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EQUATOR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an imaginary circle round the middle of the earth
• a line notionally drawn on the earth equidistant from the poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
• a corresponding line on a planet or other body.
• imaginary circle round the earth
• The imaginary great circle on the earth\'s surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth\'s surface into two hemispheres.
• The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth\'s equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.
• an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles
• a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts
• a line notionally drawn on the earth equidistant from the poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a great circle of spherical celestial bodies

Words related to EQUATOR

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Words that contain EQUATOR

equators17 equatorial19 equatorials20 equatorward24 equatorially24 subequatorial24

How to use EQUATOR in a sentence

• The contents of the Great Wall would be enough to build two walls six feet high and two feet thick around the equator.
• There are two brief rainy seasons on the Equator and in its neighbourhood, and one at each of the tropics.
• Wilks, to his great satisfaction, was allowed to renew his visits to Equator Lodge and assist his old master in the garden.
• When he talks of Heavenly Bodies, you meet with Eccliptic and Eccentric, the trepidation, Stars dropping from the Zenith, Rays culminating from the Equator.
• Long before passing the line, we passengers had frequently spoken of all the sufferings and tortures we should be subjected to at the Equator.
• There is never any great variation in the temperature, which is the natural consequence of the place being near the equator.
• In these favored regions, we find the Banana, the Cocoa, and the Date Palm, and other special gifts of Providence to the inhabitants of the equator.
• Up from the equator had drifted the threat of a scandal, sickening, grim, terrible.
• Measure with a band of paper the distance on the globe from the Equator on one side to the Equator on the other.
• Seven hours and 12 minutes later, the fourth asteroid demolished the atmosphere plant located nine degrees south of the equator and 167 degrees east of the central meridian.
• The appearance of Jack Frost means death to most of the trees that come from near the equator.
• It seems to be generally held that warm air is passing polewards from the equator continuously at the high levels.
• It is the Greenland whale you have hunted up to this time, and that would not risk passing through the warm waters of the equator.
• A similar treaty was ratified at Guayaquil on the 23rd of January with the republic of the equator.
• In all these cases the beginning of the day varies with the seasons at all places not under the equator.
• I was desirous of ascertaining the true position of this, and of some other small islands, laid down in the neighbourhood of the equator.
• Thus the difference, arising from a change of place in the compass, appeared to diminish sensibly as we approached the magnetic equator.
• He carried an insulated wire along the axis of a bar magnet from its pole to its equator, where it issued from the magnet, and was bent up so as to connect its two ends.
• Stars are reckoned as so many degrees, minutes, and seconds from each other, from the zenith, or from a given meridian, or from the equator.
• Now, suppose two observers on the equator should look at the moon at the same instant.
• Then it was seen that this wind circled round the earth in the vicinity of the equator, and completed its circuit in about thirteen days.
• The Carabobo Indians are easily the most enthusiastic lovers of music between the equator and the French Opera House in New Orleans.
• Finding, however, that as I neared the Equator this was impossible, I took to the sea, and went down to its highway.
• They rule with their tongue and their power all Africa south of the equator, save where the Europeans have entered.

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