equatorial
赤道,赤道地区,赤道的,赤道几内亚
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- : of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- : of, like, or typical of the regions at the earth's equator: equatorial temperatures.
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- : a telescope mounting having two axes of motion, one parallel to the earth's axis and one at right angles to it.
- : Also called e·qua·to·ri·al tel·e·scope, e·qua·to·ri·al in·stru·ment . a telescope with such a mounting.
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The PETM lifted that to above 98°F, more than 16°F above the modern average equatorial Atlantic temperature.
During our work in that hot equatorial visit in 2015, we brought back tiny slivers of nautilus shells for analysis in giant mass spectroscopes.
If Earth had such an orbit, every year we’d pass over the sun’s north pole, dive through its equatorial plane, then pass below the sun’s south pole before coming back up again.
Both of those asteroids have equatorial diameters larger than their polar diameters.
Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua have been floated as possibilities.
The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat.
What appear to be good observations show that the equatorial part of its area, at least, still glows from its own heat.
On the equatorial side this air is moving more rapidly than it is on the polar side.
At the same time this descending water drifts along the bottom of the ocean troughs toward the equatorial realm.
Those who do not dwell in the equatorial countries emigrate every autumn, just as your birds do.
It was a full moon, and the glorious golden light of the equatorial night shone through the high trees like a new dawn.