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   E·qua·tor

   /əˈkwādər/

   

   noun

   • 1. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
   • ▪ a corresponding line on a planet or other body.
   • ▪ short for celestial equator

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’ (see equate).

   Scrabble Points: 16

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