equator
noun/ɪˈkweɪtə(r)/
/ɪˈkweɪtər/
(usually the equator)
[singular]- an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South Poles
- The island is twenty degrees south of the equator.
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyb2- The island is just 80 miles north of the equator.
- The lake lies exactly on the equator.
- The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles.
- in an area near the equator
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + equator- cross
- straddle
- around the equator
- at the equator
- close to the equator
- …
- north of the equator
- south of the equator
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’.
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