equatorial

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How much water must be boiled-off in solar powered kilns on the Martian equatorial surface to achieve this ratio?

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Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.

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adjective

Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.

adjective

(geography) Of, near, or relating to the equator.

adjective

(organic chemistry) of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for equatorial.

adjective

Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.

See also: tropical, pantropic, pantropical, tropic

adjective

(geography) Of, near, or relating to the equator.

See also: tropical, pantropic, pantropical, tropic

adjective

(organic chemistry) of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis

See also: tropical, pantropic, pantropical, tropic

noun

(astronomy) A 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.

See also: tropical, pantropic, pantropical, tropic

Example sentences

How much water must be boiled-off in solar powered kilns on the Martian equatorial surface to achieve this ratio?

In other words, the crystals point along an axis near the equatorial plane through Central America and Southeast Asia.

Definitely suboptimal for equatorial trajectories--but it was there and the Russians are nothing if not practical.

Australia could turn its curse (extremely high, equatorial-like solar irradiance [1]) into a bless, if only politics were not so short-sighted.

Any idea why this shows equatorial regions as having lower irradiance than other areas?

But on a globe, two lines of longitude that are both at 90 degrees to the equatorial line will nevertheless converge at the pole.

Because the corn farmers are Americans, and the equatorial farmers are not.

The most obvious way is an circular equatorial orbit at 35,786km.

Perhaps they should re-domicile in a nice equatorial country, say, Guyana.

The Venusian equatorial winds which surround the planet in a few days (at 300-400 km/h) and which are pretty permanent, can be considered storm winds.

The area of R (an equatorial annulus) can be computed exactly using calculus---or looked up on Wikipedia [1]: area(R) = 4pi - 2(2pi(1-sin(pi/360))) = 4pi sin(pi/360).

To try this in Kerbal space Program: place two craft into the same equatorial orbit, but with one 1/6th of an orbit ahead of the other.

Quote examples

The question is, if you cut the Earth through the equatorial plane and looked down at the exposed core, would the "east-west" grains follow circles around the plane, or would they form lines pointing across the plane?

), the Mark Thatcher operation to try to "regime change" Equatorial Guinea, a small, oil-rich country with a non-democratic government.

Which can also be phrased as "unemployed Americans farmers are burdens on American systems, unemployed equatorial farmers are not." Not that I don't think the sugar subsidies specifically are nonsense, the structural reasons that food subsidies exist is sound.

"Because it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the planets, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day at some equatorial regions." — From Wikipedia.