Equinox
['iːkwɪnɒks;'ekwɪ-] or ['ikwɪnɑks]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Equinoctial point, intersection of the equator and the ecliptic.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sun passes the equinox; the days shorten, the leaves grow serebut--he is coming. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Babylonian astr onomers also observed that the successive vernal (or autumnal) equinoxes follow each other at intervals of a few seconds less than a year. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The time of the rising is now, owing to the precession of the equinoxes, different from what it was then (July 1st). Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And as a third important factor there is what is called the _precession of the equinoxes_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They calculated the angle of the ecliptic and the precession of the equinoxes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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