equatorial

See also: équatorial

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkwəˈtɔːɹiəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

equatorial (comparative more equatorial, superlative most equatorial)

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

   That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.

   • 1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 130:

     In equatorial Ecuador, days and nights are almost the same length, and the sun goes down early.

2. Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.
3. (organic chemistry) of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis

Derived terms

• amphiequatorial
• antiequatorial
• circumequatorial
• diequatorial
• Equatorial Guinea
• equatorially
• equatorial plane
• French Equatorial Africa
• nonequatorial
• paleoequatorial
• postequatorial
• preequatorial
• pseudoequatorial
• retroequatorial
• subequatorial
• trans-equatorial
• transequatorial

Translations

of, near, or relating to the equator

• Afrikaans: ewenaars (af), ekwatoriaal
• Arabic: اِسْتِوَائِيّ m (istiwāʔiyy)
• Bulgarian: екваториален (ekvatorialen)
• Catalan: equatorial
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤道的 (chìdào de)

• Czech: rovníkový (cs) m
• Danish: ækvatorial
• Dutch: equatoriaal (nl)
• Esperanto: ekvatora
• Finnish: päiväntasaajan (fi), ekvatoriaalinen (fi)
• French: équatorial (fr) m, équatoriale (fr) f
• German: äquatorial (de)
• Greek: ισημερινός (el) (isimerinós)
• Hebrew: הַמִּשְׁוָנִי m (hamishvani)
• Hindi: भूमध्यीय (bhūmadhyīya)
• Hungarian: egyenlítői (hu)
• Italian: equatoriale (it)
• Japanese: 赤道 (ja) (せきどう, sekidō)
• Korean: 매우 무더운 (mae'u mudeoun)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ekvatorial

  Nynorsk: ekvatorial

• Polish: równikowy (pl)
• Portuguese: equatorial (pt)
• Romanian: ecuatorial (ro)
• Russian: экваториа́льный (ru) (ekvatoriálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: екваторски m

  Latin: ekvatorski (sh) m

• Slovak: rovníkový m
• Slovene: ekvatorialni m
• Spanish: ecuatorial (es)
• Swedish: ekvatorial (sv)
• Welsh: cyhydeddol

Noun

equatorial (plural equatorials)

1. (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.

Translations

kind of telescope

• Dutch: equatoriaal (nl) m or n
• German: Äquatorial n
• Italian: equatoriale (it) m
• Persian: استوایی (ostovâyi)
• Spanish: ecuatorial (es) m or f

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ə.kwə.tu.ɾiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.kwə.to.ɾiˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [e.kwa.to.ɾiˈal]

Adjective

equatorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural equatorials)

1. equatorial

Derived terms

• Guinea Equatorial

Related terms

• equador

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.kwa.to.ɾiˈaw/ [e.kwa.to.ɾiˈaʊ̯], (faster) /e.kwa.toˈɾjaw/ [e.kwa.toˈɾjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.kwɐ.tuˈɾjal/ [i.kwɐ.tuˈɾjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.kwɐ.tuˈɾjal/ [i.kwɐ.tuˈɾjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.kwɐ.tuˈɾja.li/

• Hyphenation: e‧qua‧to‧ri‧al

Adjective

equatorial m or f (plural equatoriais)

1. equatorial

Derived terms

• Guiné Equatorial

Related terms

• equador

Further reading

• “equatorial”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “equatorial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026