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The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the Earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole. It sits at 0 degrees latitude and splits the world into the northern and southern hemispheres. You cannot see it from a plane; maps draw it to help us talk. Places on or near the equator are generally hot all year, with less of a cold winter, though mountains and oceans still change the weather. It is a school-geography word that then turns up in news about climate and travel. Though actually the Latin name is not first of all “equal distance from the ”: Late Latin called it the circulus aequator diei et noctis — the circle that equalises day and night — because there, day and night stay close in length through the year. The “middle of the Earth” picture is the one need; the day-and-night story is why the word looks like equal.
組成From Late Latin (circulus) aequator (diei et noctis), “the (circle) that equalises day and night,” from the same Latin family as aequus, “equal, even.”
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Equatorname
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geographynatural-sciencesEarth’s equator.
equatornoun/ɪˈkweɪ.tə/
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geographynatural-sciencesAn imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
- Baishui is about as close to the equator as Tampa, Florida.
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astronomynatural-sciencesA similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on another reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
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The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
- Slice the onion through the equator.
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The celestial equator.
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