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 Translation for 'equinoctial' from English to French
NOUN   an equinoctial | equinoctials
SYNO celestial equator | equinoctial | equinoctial circle | ...
astron.
équateur {m} céleste
equinoctial
astron.
équateur {m} céleste
equinoctial line
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Translation for 'equinoctial' from English to French

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equinoctial
équateur {m} célesteastron.

equinoctial line
équateur {m} célesteastron.
Usage Examples English
  • His descriptions about the leveling in the plants growing close to the equinoctial line were sent to José Celestino Mutis, and as a consequence Mutis appointed him to the Botanical Expedition.
  • In 1736, he collaborated with the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission, whose primary objective, until 1743, was the measurement of the value of a degree of terrestrial meridian arc in the proximity of an equinoctial line.
  • The entrance is due east of the centre of the henge, and frames the rising of the equinoctial sun, which "suggests that the monument may reflect the cardinal points, as do the Long Meg and Castlerigg stone circles."
  • Gamma Arietis has been called "the First Star in Aries" as having been at one time the nearest visible star to the equinoctial point.
  • The Great Year, or equinoctial cycle, corresponds to a complete revolution of the equinoxes around the ecliptic. Its length is about 25,700 years.

  • The work also contained tables of the Coptic and Arabic names of signs of the zodiac and the 28 sets of equinoctial-ecliptic stars.
  • Mechanical clocks encouraged the adoption of equinoctial hours.
  • In 2011, archaeologist Morgan Saletta reported solar projections within the sites of Grotte de Bounias and Grotte de la Source during equinoctial sunsets.
  • Tidal movements of up to twelve knots during equinoctial tides with a rise/fall of 12 metres, a multitude of rocks and reefs have resulted in over 1,000 shipwrecks over the centuries.
  • Oughtred also invented the Universal equinoctial ring dial.

  • The two commanders were distinctly uncomfortable with their orders, as they believed the equinoctial gales would make the operation extremely risky, and they lacked any firm intelligence about Lorient and its defences.
  • , Ptolemy, the Alexandrian astronomer, sexagesimally subdivided both the mean solar day and the true solar day to at least six places after the sexagesimal point, and he used simple fractions of both the equinoctial hour and the seasonal hour, none of which resemble the modern second.
  • Last day of equinoctial week (end of the month): [...] at Kōsoku-ji. The temple performs funerary rites in memory of defunct pets (dogs, cats, canaries).
  • This method led to a system of 12 daytime hours and 12 nighttime hours, varying in length according to the season. Later, [...] a system of 24 "equinoctial" hours was used.
  • The "equinoctial colure" is the meridian or great circle of the celestial sphere which passes through the celestial poles and the two equinoxes: [...] the first point of Aries and the first point of Libra.

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