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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Late Latin (circulus ) aequator (diei et noctis ) .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -eɪtə(r)
Noun
equator (plural equators )
( geography , often “the Equator ”) An imaginary great circle around the Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere .
( astronomy ) A similar great circle on any sphere , especially on a celestial body , or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
Slice the onion through the equator .
The celestial equator .
Derived terms
Translations
circle around the earth
Albanian: ekuator m
Arabic: خَطُّ الاِسْتِوَاء m ( ḵaṭṭu l-istiwāʔ )
Armenian: հասարակած (hy) ( hasarakac )
Assamese: বিষুৱ ৰেখা ( bixu rekha )
Azerbaijani: ekvator
Banyumasan: khatulistiwa , katulistiwa
Basque: ekuatore
Belarusian: эква́тар m ( ekvátar )
Bengali: নিরক্ষরেখা ( nirokkhorekha )
Bulgarian: еква́тор m ( ekvátor )
Burmese: အီကွေတာ (my) ( i-kweta )
Catalan: equador (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 赤道 (zh) ( chìdào )
Czech: rovník (cs) m
Danish: ækvator (da) c
Dutch: evenaar (nl) m , equator (nl) m
Esperanto: ekvatoro
Estonian: ekvaator (et)
Finnish: päiväntasaaja (fi)
French: équateur (fr) m
Georgian: ეკვატორი ( eḳvaṭori )
German: Äquator (de) m , Linie (de) f
Greek: ισημερινός (el) m ( isimerinós )
Gujarati: વિષુવવૃત્ત ( viṣuvvŕtt )
Hindi: भूमध्य रेखा f ( bhūmadhya rekhā )
Hungarian: Egyenlítő (hu)
Icelandic: miðbaugur (is) m
Indonesian: khatulistiwa (id) , ekuator (id)
Italian: equatore (it) m
Japanese: 赤道 (ja) ( せきどう, sekidō )
Javanese: ꦏꦠꦸꦭꦶꦱ꧀ꦠꦶꦮ ( katulistiwa )
Kazakh: экватор ( ékvator )
Khmer: ភូមធ្យរេខា ( phuumĕəʼthyĕəʼreikhaa ) , អេក្វាទ័រ (km) ( ʼeekvaatɔə )
Korean: 적도 (ko) ( jeokdo ) (赤道 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: экватор (ky) ( ekvator )
Lao: ສູນສູດ ( sūn sūt ) , ເສັ້ນສູນສູດ (lo) ( sen sūn sūt )
Latvian: ekvators m
Lithuanian: pusiaujas m
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Macedonian: еква́тор m ( ekvátor )
Malay: khatulistiwa
Maori: te ara nui o te Rā , te ara nui o Tama-te-Rā
Mongolian: экватор (mn) ( ekvator )
Navajo: nahasdzáán ałníiʼgi hoodzooígíí
Norman: lîngne f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ekvator (no) m
Nynorsk: ekvator m
Persian: خط استوا (fa) ( xatt-e estevâ ) , استوا (fa) ( estevâ )
Polish: równik (pl) m
Portuguese: equador (pt) m
Romanian: ecuator (ro) n
Russian: эква́тор (ru) m ( ekvátor )
Sanskrit: भूमध्यरेखा f ( bhūmadhyarekhā )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: екватор m , полутар m
Roman: ekvator (sh) m , polutar m
Shona: muenzanisi
Slovak: rovník m
Slovene: ekvator (sl) m
Spanish: ecuador (es) m
Swahili: ikweta
Swedish: ekvator (sv) c
Tagalog: gitguhit , ekwador
Tajik: хати истиво ( xat-i istivo ) , экватор (tg) ( ekvator )
Tatar: экватор ( ekwator )
Telugu: భూమధ్య రేఖ ( bhūmadhya rēkha )
Thai: เส้นศูนย์สูตร ( sên-sǔun-sùut )
Turkish: Ekvator (tr) , ekvator (tr)
Turkmen: ekwator
Ukrainian: еква́тор m ( ekvátor )
Uyghur: ئېكۋاتور ( ëkwator )
Uzbek: ekvator (uz)
Vietnamese: xích đạo (vi) (赤道 )
Volapük: kveator (vo)
Welsh: cyhydedd (cy) m
Yiddish: עקוואַטאָר m ( ekvator )
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