equinox
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Substantiivi
equinox englanniksi
One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.
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(RQ:Bentley Confutation of Atheism)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Nichols (printer)|John Nichols;(nb...)|date=22 September 1793|year_published=1794|section=footnote *|pages=160–161|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t24b2zc9n&view=1up&seq=172|oclc=223128061|passage=The four grand and ſolemn Bardic days are, of ancient uſage, the tvvo equinoxes, and the tvvo ſolſtices; the ''nevv'' and ''full moons'' are alſo, ſubordinately, ſolemn Bardic days: (..)
(RQ:Emerson Complete Works)
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=William Parker|John William Parker,(nb...)|year=1848|volume=I|page=100|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQIBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100|oclc=1342393935|passage=21. Report the experiments, if conveniently they may, at both the solstices and equinoctes. / 22. Observe accurately the time of the sun’s rising on the top of the hill and below, and note the difference.
(quote-book) 55.|title=The Life of Julius Cæsar|location=London; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Routledge|George Routledge & Co.,(nb...)|year=1854|page=195|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WYBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA195|oclc=969041631|passage=For Caesar|Julius Cæsar says, that on the night of the fourth day after his landing there was a full moon. He had before mentioned that the summer was far spent, and the æquinox not come, hence, the full moon must have been either in July or August.
(quote-book) In practice, one cannot determine the equinox by measuring the length of time between sunrise and sunset.
(quote-book) Midsummer’s Day falls near the beginning of summer meteorologically, but was the midpoint of summer in the traditional calendar. Though Midsummer’s Day celebrations are common in the modern Celtic countries, there is no evidence that the ancient Celts celebrated either the solstices or the equinoctes.
The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1)
One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.
A (l) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox ''(sense 1)'', now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale.
(RQ:Dryden Hind and Panther)
(quote-book)|date=1 September 1920|oclc=7208306|newversion=republished on the website of|title2=The Kipling Society|archiveurl2=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222231258/https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/the-satisfaction-of-a-gentleman-2.htm|archivedate2=22 December 2021|year2=accessed 7 September 2022|passage=The Equinox drove the sand into their faces or round their legs, as they dived among the sheep-haunted hollows.
A (l); also, the Earth's equator.
(RQ:Dampier New Voyage)
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