Equinox

['iːkwɪnɒks;'ekwɪ-] or ['ikwɪnɑks]

解释:

(noun.) 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.

整理:马库斯--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Equinoctial wind or storm.

布雷特整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Equinoctial point, intersection of the equator and the ecliptic.

约瑟夫编辑

解释:

n. the time when the sun crosses the equator making the night equal in length to the day about 21st March and 23d Sept.—adj. Equinoc′tial pertaining to the equinoxes the time of the equinoxes or to the regions about the equator.—n. a great circle in the heavens corresponding to the equator of the earth.—adv. Equinoc′tially in the direction of the equinox.—Equinoctial gales high gales popularly supposed to prevail about the times of the equinoxes—the belief is unsupported by observation.

编辑:马克斯