equidiurnal
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
equidiurnal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; applied to the equinoctial line.
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
- The circle which the sun describes in his diurnal motion, when the days and nights are equal, the Greeks called the equidiurnal
References[edit]
“equidiurnal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.