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equinoctial circle

noun

, Astronomy.


equinoctial circle

noun

  1. another name for celestial equator
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

equinoctial circle

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Word History and Origins

Origin of equinoctial circle1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Example Sentences

Moreover, this could be done more accurately if an astrolabe were constructed with a network on which the entire equinoctial circle was divided up.

Such were not the opinions of the ancients, who imagined that the equinoctial circle was devoid of inhabitants because of the perpendicular rays of the sun.

Where the equinoctial circle cuts the zodiac in its centre.

This is just, quoth Panurge, like those who, as Galen tells us, cannot erect the cavernous nerve towards the equinoctial circle unless they are soundly flogged.

The above-mentioned intersection of the equinoctial circle and the zodiac. v.

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