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This word describes anything related to the , the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth. "Equatorial countries" are the ones near this line, and "equatorial weather" is typically hot, wet, and humid all year round, without the four seasons that countries farther north or south have.
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組成From "equator" (the middle line of the Earth) + "-ial," an ending that turns a noun into a describing word.
同家族的字
- equatorthe base noun — equatorial is just its describing-word form
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
equatorialadj/ˌɛkwəˈtɔːɹiəl/
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geographynatural-sciencesOf, near, or relating to the equator.
- That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.
- In equatorial Ecuador, days and nights are almost the same length, and the sun goes down early.
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Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesorganic-chemistryof a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis
equatorialnoun/ˌɛkwəˈtɔːɹiəl/
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astronomynatural-sciencesA kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。