equinoctial


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Synonyms for equinoctial

the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles

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1990: 250-1 shot Equinoctial came home first at Kelso, the longest-priced horse ever to win a race in Britain.
While the three-meter easement is not exactly specified in the implementing rules and regulations of the Water Code of the Philippines of 1979, the law states: 'All easements of public use prescribed for the banks or rivers and the shores of seas and lakes shall be reckoned from the line reached by the highest flood which does not cause inundation or the highest equinoctial tide, whichever is higher.
It could be found just below the equinoctial line, roughly on the same parallel as the latitudes of his domain in Guinea" (Van Sertima 8).
(26) Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, During the Years 1799-1804, trans.
Occasionally, backed by an equinoctial gale, it musters enough enthusiasm to flood the coastal road.
(abcd) Equinoctial Technological University, Santo Domingo Campus Department of Enterprise and Business, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Ecuador
Andrade Cuvi and Carlota Moreno are research members of the Equinoctial and Technological University from Ecuador.
Louis Rams winning the 1999 Super Bowl was 300-1, and Equinoctial winning the 2.45pm novice hurdles at Kelso in 1990 was horseracing's biggest upset at 250-1.
Indeed, Humboldt's 34-volume Voyage to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent also inspired thinkers and scientists like Charles Lyell, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, and indirectly, the rest of us.
In contrast, the absolute depth of the ASL has a semiannual form, with the lowest pressures in the equinoctial seasons, since this is the dominant cycle observed in the MSLP fields in the Antarctic coastal zone (Turner et al.
(186.) Alexander de Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial regions of the New Continent, During the Years 1799-1804 xiii n* (Helen Maria Williams trans., 1815) (noting "the guano of the islands of Peru" as one of the substances brought from America and submitted to chemical analysis).