Definitions for equatorial

• Definition
• Anagrams (470)

equatorial e·qua·to·ri·al

Spelling: [ee-kwuh-tawr-ee-uh l, -tohr-, ek-w Equatorial is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 470 anagrams from letters in equatorial (aaeiloqrtu).

Definitions for equatorial

noun

1. a telescope mounting having two axes of motion, one parallel to the earth's axis and one at right angles to it.
2. a telescope with such a mounting.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
2. of, like, or typical of the regions at the earth's equator:

Origin of equatorial

First recorded in 1655-65; equator + -ial

Examples for equatorial

This is a rough stone, not worked save in an equatorial groove.

This equatorial form is, moreover, what all the astronomers were expecting.

We may therefore say that the equatorial circumference of the earth is 20,400 miles.

The ivory of their tusks constitutes the wealth of the equatorial Province.

The two spheres connected by four beams, two opposite in the main axis, two opposite in the equatorial axis.

The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat.

The tropical forms all disappear in these zones, as the equatorial do in the tropical zones.

Such would be the appearances to an inhabitant of the equatorial regions.

At that time the declination of the sun is 23½ north of the equatorial line.

Zimbabwe, equatorial Guinea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have been floated as possibilities.