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equinoctial

/ee-kwuh-nok-shuhl, ek-wuh-/US // ˌi kwəˈnɒk ʃəl, ˌɛk wə- //UK // (ˌiːkwɪˈnɒkʃəl) //

等离子体,等离子型,等效性,等时性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to an equinox or the equinoxes, or to the equality of day and night.
    • : pertaining to the celestial equator.
    • : occurring at or about the time of an equinox.
    • : Botany. opening regularly at a certain hour.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : celestial equator.
    • : equinoctial storm.

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Examples

  • Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.

  • I don't know if you remember that equinoctial gale that blew about the 18th or 19th.

  • She plunged into the chilly equinoctial darkness as the clock struck ten, for her fifteen miles' walk under the steely stars.

  • The next afternoon we crossed the equinoctial line in longitude 21 degrees 50 minutes west.

  • The 'kids' are two little stars which first rise in the evening towards the end of September, during the equinoctial gales.