Definitions for equator

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equator e·qua·tor

Spelling: [ih-kwey-ter]

IPA: /ɪˈkweɪ tər/

Equator is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in equator (aeoqrtu).

Definitions for equator

noun

1. the great circle on a sphere or heavenly body whose plane is perpendicular to the axis, equidistant everywhere from the two poles of the sphere or heavenly body.
2. the great circle of the earth that is equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole.
3. a circle separating a surface into two congruent parts.
4. celestial equator.

Origin of equator

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin aequātor, Latin: equalizer (of day and night, as when the sun crosses the equator). See equate, -tor

Examples for equator

The ancients had said that no continent existed south of the equator.

And he tells you that the earth south of the equator makes the inferior man.

Those storms kicked up in the collision zone around the equator spin westward off the coast of Cape Verde.

An orbit near the equator was important for a variety of reasons.

And yet the trees are cultivated in every country within 15 degrees of the equator, so a virtual cocoa belt encircles the globe.

Aunt Jane approached a degree nearer the equator, and said, gently, "I fear I do."

If it did, the equator would be frozen in twenty-four hours!

Yasuni Natonal Park, where the equator meets the Andes, is famed for its fabulous variety of plants and animals.

There is no distinction between the equator and the ecliptic.

I may almost say their temperature would be the same at the equator as the Pole.