Definitions for equinoctial

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equinoctial e·qui·noc·tial

Spelling: [ee-kwuh-nok-shuh l, ek-wuh-]

IPA: /ˌi kwəˈnɒk ʃəl, ˌɛk wə-/

Equinoctial is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 766 anagrams from letters in equinoctial (aceiilnoqtu).

Definitions for equinoctial

noun

1. celestial equator.
2. equinoctial storm.

adjective

1. pertaining to an equinox or the equinoxes, or to the equality of day and night.
2. pertaining to the celestial equator.
3. occurring at or about the time of an equinox.
4. Botany. (of a flower) opening regularly at a certain hour.

Origin of equinoctial

1350-1400; Middle English Latin aequinoctiālis pertaining to the equinox. See equinox, -al¹

Examples for equinoctial

An equinoctial gale was raging, or rather had been raging all day.

Why we do not rather take the distance of the star from the equinoctial, at once?

The "Ranger" had encountered an equinoctial gale in its worst form.

I don't know if you remember that equinoctial gale that blew about the 18th or 19th.

The equinoctial gales were due, and rarely failed to keep their appointments.

I was sure that this was the beginning of the equinoctial gale.

The latter, by way of distinction, is sometimes denominated the equinoctial.

They will in all probability be caught in the equinoctial gales.

For the equinoctial Circle does not cut the Zodiac at right angles.

The end of this island is in 111⁄2° south of the equinoctial.