Earths spherical measurements .The grids on the plane surface globe. | |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72676999 United States 06/10/2021 08:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And check this: the second word .IMAGINARY line. And original meaning of equator.day n night. Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages Search for a word e·qua·tor /ēˈkwādər/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: equator; plural noun: equators 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. ASTRONOMY short for celestial equator. 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) |