equator

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++e·qua·tor, Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ noun  the equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole 赤道on/at/near the equator a small village near the equator 赤道附近的小村庄 →4  See picture of 见图 GLOBE →5 see picture at 见图 earth1

Examples from the Corpus

equator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degrees south of the celestial equator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weird stuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudless sky and tropical breezes.• It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.• The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.• Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.• The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.• It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.Origin equator (1300-1400) Medieval Latin aequator “equalizer”, from Latin aequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator

e·qua·tor nounChineseSyllable  

middle an the around imaginary Corpus drawn line

equator
e‧qua‧tor , Equator /ɪˈkweɪtə $ -ər/ nounthe equator an imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth that is exactly the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole
    on/at/near the equator
    a small village near the equator

equa·torBrE /ɪˈkweɪtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ɪˈkweɪtər/ 🔊 (usually the equator) noun [singular] an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles 赤道

climate, earth, equator, equinox, hemisphere, International Date Line, latitude, map, planet, tropic