Definition of Equator

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Equator

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.

The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.

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Equator Quotations

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
C. S. Lewis

Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
Ellsworth Huntington

Equator Translations

equator in Dutch is evenaar, evennachtslijn, equator
equator in Norwegian is ekvator
equator in Portuguese is Equador
equator in Swedish is ekvator

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