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equinoctinal

equinoctinal adjective: synonym of equinoctial.

Adjective

equinoctinal (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of equinoctial.
    • The equinoctinal gales are often ministers of vengeance, scattering desolation on sea and land.1833 March 5, “The Months: March”, in The Weekly Visitor, number 11, page 86
    • Since solar and sidereal time are estimated from the passage of the sun and the equinoctial point across the meridian of each place, the hours are different at different places: while it is one o'clock at one place it is two at another, three at another, &c.;1840, Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, page 100
    Synonyms:
    equinoctial

Noun

equinoctinal

  1. The celestial equator.
    • I intend to consider the English colonies under two principal divisions; the first I allot to those islands which lie under the torrid zone between the tropic of Cancer and the Equinoctinal line, in that part generally called the West-Indies.1768, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of the British Empire in Europe, America, Africa and Asia., page 276
    • 1. With a Pair of Compasses take the nearest Distance from the Sun's Place in the Ecliptic 29d. in ϒs, to the Equinoctial on the Globe, 2. Measure that Distance on the Equinoctinal Colure (if graduated) and it sheweth the Declination 20d.20m. as before.1770, James Atkinson, William Mountaine, Epitome of the Art of Navigation, page 171

Synonyms of equinoctinal

Forms of equinoctinal

alternative form (obsolete)equinoctinall

Questions about equinoctinal

What does equinoctinal mean?
Equinoctinal means synonym of equinoctial.
What part of speech is equinoctinal?
Equinoctinal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near equinoctinal in the dictionary

  1. equinoctial times
  2. equinoctial year
  3. equinoctial years
  4. equinoctially
  5. equinoctials
  6. equinoctinal
  7. equinologist
  8. equinologists
  9. equinophobe
  10. equinophobes
  11. equinophobia

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