An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted 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, the 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
Something that is equatorial is near or at the equator. the equatorial island with a hundred and twenty thousand people living there. adj. French Equatorial Africa Equatorial Guinea Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument
of or existing at or near the geographic equator; "equatorial Africa" of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator; "equatorial heat" of or relating to or at an equator; "equatorial diameter
An equatorial bulge is a planetological term which describes a bulge which a planet may have around its equator, distorting it into an oblate spheroid. The Earth has an equatorial bulge of 42.72 km (26.5 miles) due to its rotation. That is, its diameter measured across the equatorial plane (12756.28 km, 7,927 miles) is 42.72 km more than that measured between the poles (12713.56 km, 7,900 miles)
a small country in west central Africa, between Cameroon and Gabon. Population: 486,060 (2001). Capital: Malabo. The capital city is on an island 125 miles (200 km) from the main part of the country. officially Republic of Equatorial Guinea formerly Spanish Guinea Republic on the western coast of equatorial Africa and including Bioko Island
The plane located midway between the poles of a dividing cell during the metaphase stage of mitosis or meiosis. It is formed from the migration of the chromosomes to the center of the spindle
Birth of Hurricane Agnes—Triggered by the Transequatorial Movement of a Mesoscale System Into a Favorable Large-Scale Environment -Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 177–179.
A former federation (1910-1958) of French territories in west-central Africa comprising the present-day countries of Chad, Gabon, Congo, and Central African Republic. formerly French Congo Former federation of French possessions, western Central Africa. It was in existence from 1910 to 1959; its capital was Brazzaville. With independence in 1960, the former territory of Ubangi-Shari, to which Chad had been attached in 1920, became the Central African Republic and the Republic of Chad; the Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo; and Gabon became the Republic of Gabon