equator

Word family adjectiveequatorialadverbequatoriallynounequator

e·qua·tor, Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ noun

the equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole 赤道

on/at/near the equator

a small village near the equator

赤道附近的小村庄

Examples from the Corpus

on/at/near the equator• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• Temperatures on Mercury reach as high as 700 K at the equator.• The sun, moon, and planets pass almost directly overhead at the Equator.• Thus, at consecutive perihelion passages, opposite points on the equator pointed at the Sun.• The line on Venus is fixed to its surface at the equator.• A maximum velocity at the equator reduces to a theoretical nil at the poles.

→4 See picture of 见图 GLOBE →5 see picture at 见图 earth1

Examples from the Corpus

equator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degrees south of the celestial equator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.• The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.• Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.• The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.• It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.

Origin equator

(1300-1400) Medieval Latin aequator “equalizer”, from Latin aequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator

词汇	equator
释义	equator Word family adjectiveequatorialadverbequatoriallynounequator e·qua·tor, Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ noun the equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole 赤道 on/at/near the equator a small village near the equator 赤道附近的小村庄 Examples from the Corpus on/at/near the equator• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• Temperatures on Mercury reach as high as 700 K at the equator.• The sun, moon, and planets pass almost directly overhead at the Equator.• Thus, at consecutive perihelion passages, opposite points on the equator pointed at the Sun.• The line on Venus is fixed to its surface at the equator.• A maximum velocity at the equator reduces to a theoretical nil at the poles. →4 See picture of 见图 GLOBE →5 see picture at 见图 earth1 Examples from the Corpus equator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degrees south of the celestial equator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.• The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.• Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.• The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.• It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times. Origin equator (1300-1400) Medieval Latin aequator “equalizer”, from Latin aequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator
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