Equinox is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EQUINOX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the time when the sun crosses the equator
• the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about 22 September and 20 March).
• time of year when day and night are of equal length
• The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22. See Autumnal equinox, Vernal equinox, under Autumnal and Vernal.
• Equinoctial wind or storm.
• either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth\'s equator and day and night are of equal length
• (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a point on the celestial sphere

Words related to EQUINOX

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Words that contain EQUINOX

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How to use EQUINOX in a sentence

• Milton could not write to suit himself, except from the autumnal to the vernal equinox.
• The Holi comes round about the time of the vernal equinox, when victory declares for day and warmth in its long struggle with night and cold.
• The season meanwhile was drawing onward to the equinox, and though it was still fine, the days were much shorter.
• As for my face, the colour of it was really not so mulatto-like as one might expect from a man not at all careful of it, and living within nine or ten degrees of the equinox.
• The rainy season of the autumnal equinox being now come, I kept the 30th of September in the most solemn manner, as usual, it being the third year of my abode in the island.
• Thus the vernal equinox, which really took place on the 10th of March, was assigned in the calendar to the 21st.
• The feast of Tabernacles fell at the autumnal equinox.
• Therefore Christ ought to have suffered about the time of the summer solstice rather than about the vernal equinox.
• Thus the spring commences with the vernal equinox, and the autumn with the autumnal.
• The equinox is fixed on the 21st of March, though the sun enters Aries generally on the 20th of that month, sometimes even on the 19th.
• The Grand Feast of the Syrian Goddess, like that of the Mother of the Gods at Rome, was celebrated at the Vernal Equinox.
• Afterward the Ram or Lamb became an object of adoration, when, in his turn, he opened the equinox, to deliver the world from the wintry reign of darkness and evil.
• Some adopted the Vernal Equinox, because then day began to prevail over night, and light gained a victory over darkness.
• Some preferred the Autumnal Equinox, because then the harvests were gathered, and the hopes of a new crop were deposited in the bosom of the earth.
• This conjunction of the Sun with the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, in the constellation Taurus, required the Bull Apis to have on his shoulder a mark resembling the Crescent Moon.
• The equinoctial year ends at the moment when the Sun and Moon, at the Vernal Equinox, are united with Orion, the Star of Horus, placed in the Heavens under Taurus.
• A period of mourning about the Autumnal Equinox, and of joy at the return of Spring, was almost universal.
• Autumnal Equinox, reason for celebrating Mysteries at the, 404-l.
• Autumnal Equinox, reasons for celebrating Mysteries at the, 491-m.
• Ceres, at Autumnal Equinox was celebrated the Mysteries of, 491-m.
• Creative Agency of Heaven developed most fully at the Vernal Equinox, 473-u.
• Forty days of mourning for Osiris, then the Vernal Equinox, 486-u.
• Lamb or Ram adored when he opened the Equinox, 448-m.
• Mysteries celebrated at Autumnal Equinox, why, 404-l.
• Nisan, at the Vernal Equinox, the beginning of the year, 466-m.
• Scorpion or Serpent stings the Bull and Orion at Autumnal Equinox, 466-l.
• Spring Equinox, Mysteries celebrated the triumph of light at the, 405-u.
• Sun at the Vernal Equinox communicates to the earth his warmth, 475-u.
• Sun, at Vernal Equinox, enters triumphant into the beneficent Sign, 664-m.
• Virgo represented by Isis and Ceres at the Vernal Equinox, 506-m.
• Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year.
• This happens twice a year, and the times when the sun passes the equator are called the vernal or spring equinox and the autumnal equinox respectively.
• Might we not call the place the Temple of Cain? There the Emperor does honour to husbandry by ploughing a few furrows at the vernal equinox.

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