| 单词 | vernal equinox |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvernal equinox (or †equinoctial) a. vernal equinox (or †equinoctial): see equinox n. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > cycle of the year > [noun] > equinox evenlengtha1325 equinoctiumc1400 equinoctial?a1475 equinoction1483 vernal equinox (or equinoctial)1534 level1548 equinox1588 autumnal equinox1594 autumn equinox1594 equinoctian1627 fall equinox1844 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1308/1 The xiiii. daye after theyr vernall Equinoctiall in the euenynge. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xvi. f. 149 The beginning of Aries, which is called the vernal Equinoxe. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 299 From the vernall æquinoctiall to the summer solstice. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth i. 35 This Year 1696. the Vernal Equinox is on the 9th of March. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §31. 316 You will have the Longitude sought from the Vernal Equinox. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 155 The tides at our vernal Equinox, in March, rise higher than those of September. 1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 216 During the three months between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §171 The days and nights are equal all over the world on the 22d of March and the 22d of September, which dates are called the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. < as lemmas |
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