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Two great circles, the solstitial colure and the equinoctial colure, intersect at the celestial poles.
Lindley has made us acquainted with a species of Salix belonging to Senegal, and therefore to the equinoctial region of Africa.
The Orinoco, the Eio Magdalena, and the Congo or Zaire, are the only great rivers of the equinoctial region of the globe.
The declination of a heavenly body is its angular distance from the equinoctial or celestial equator.
A star on the north side of the equinoctial is in northern declination, and one on the southern side is in southern declination.
In Egypt generally, the solstitial worship followed that of the May and equinoctial years.
The equinoctial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and the ecliptic at the two equinoxes.
Consistently, equinoctial markers and alignments were made to an declination well over half a degree to the north.
Two large stones also stand almost due east and west to mark the local equinoctial positions of the sun.
One of the effects of equinoctial periods is their temporary disruptive effect on communications satellites.
The sundial above, dated 1509, shows equinoctial hours with a gnomon parallel to the earth's axis.
This colonizing plant grows mainly on the upper levels of salt marshes reached only by high equinoctial tides and storm waves.
They are also equinoctial tides, occurring just after the autumn equinox on September 23, which would normally bring the highest tides of the year.
Outside, the equinoctial storms of mid-September are raging.
The temperature variation is pronounced, exceeding 23 ° C, and rainfall is primarily equinoctial.
On nautical or professional equinoctial compasses for explorers, which have to be usable in the entire world, the latitude scale must be representative of any location on Earth.
The science behind this is not fully understood, but the two equinoctial periods in spring and autumn tend to produce an increase in aurora compared with winter and summer.
The equinoctial ring of the dial was hinged to the base plate and its gnomon was a narrow rod set at the centre of a pivoted bar lying across the West-East diameter of the hour ring.
Examples from Classical Literature
The time occupied by the sun, in passing from the equinoctial point round to the same point again, is called the tropical year.
I don't know if you remember that equinoctial gale that blew about the 18th or 19th.
The equinoctial gales were due, and rarely failed to keep their appointments.
The latter, by way of distinction, is sometimes denominated the equinoctial.
Why we do not rather take the distance of the star from the equinoctial, at once?
On the surface of the sphere the equator, the ecliptic, the equinoctial, and the solstitial colures are represented.
Great circles passing through the equinoctial and solstitial points, and the poles of the earth.
At Meroe and Ptolemais937 in the troglodytic the longest day consists of thirteen equinoctial hours.
For the equinoctial Circle does not cut the Zodiac at right angles.
An equinoctial gale was raging, or rather had been raging all day.
Late vernal equinoctial gales contemporary with the gowk or cuckoo.
They will in all probability be caught in the equinoctial gales.
At the Austrian Glaubendorf 2 rondel the equinoctial sun settings could have been seen along the western causeway.
The first was an equinoctial, the second a solstitial armilla.
I was sure that this was the beginning of the equinoctial gale.
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