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单词 equator
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equator

noun
/ɪˈkweɪtə(r)/
/ɪˈkweɪtər/
(usually the equator)
[singular]
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  1. an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles
    • The island is twenty degrees south of the equator.
    Wordfinder
    • climate
    • earth
    • equator
    • equinox
    • hemisphere
    • International Date Line
    • latitude
    • map
    • planet
    • tropic
    Extra Examples
    • The island is just 80 miles north of the equator.
    • The lake lies exactly on the equator.
    • The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles.
    • in an area near the equator
    Topics Geographyb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + equator
    • cross
    • straddle
    preposition
    • around the equator
    • at the equator
    • close to the equator
    phrases
    • north of the equator
    • south of the equator
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’.
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