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Keywords: Equinoctial, Geographic, Africa, Relating, Diameter

Related Terms: Antarctic, Arctic, Circumpolar, Culmination, Declination, Equator, Equinoctial, Hemisphere, Horizon, Polaris, Tropic, Coriolis, Right Ascension, Arctic Circle, Celestial Sphere, Contraparallel, Polar Orbit, North Pole, Antarctic Circle, Hour Angle, Ferrel Cell, Intertropical Convergence Zone, Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn, Temperate Zone, Antarctic Convergence, Polar Easterlies, Celestial Equator, Vernal Equinox, Celestial Poles, Tropics, Celestial Pole, Ascending Node, Descending Node, Arctic Oscillation, Polar Vortex, South Pole, Westerlies, Celestial Coordinates, North Celestial Pole, South Celestial Pole, Hour Circle, Equatorial Orbit, Southern Hemisphere, Celestial Globe, Armillary Sphere, Pole Star, Northern Hemisphere, Meridional Flow

of or relating to or at an equator; "equatorial diameter"

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of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator; "equatorial heat"

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of or existing at or near the geographic equator; "equatorial Africa"

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an environmental belt, normally defined as 15 degrees north or south of the geographical equator.

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relating to or based on the equator. Has much the same meaning as equinoctial.

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