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  • noun Plural form of equator.

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  • According to the admirable work of Duperrey, * who crossed the magnetic equator six times between 1822 and 1825, the nodes of the two equators, that is to say, the two points at which the line without inclination intersects the terrestrial equator, and consequently passes from one henisphere into the other, are so unequally placed, that in 1825 the node near the island of St. Thomas, on the western

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • I always mark up the balls around their equators with angled double dots.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I always mark up the balls around their equators with angled double dots.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I always mark up the balls around their equators with angled double dots.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I always mark up the balls around their equators with angled double dots.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • These cosmic rays are deflected by the earths magnetic field and due to how the feild forms there is more protection/sheilding at the equators that there is at the poles - at the poles the low energy solar cosmic rays can sneak in giving us the aurora.

    Snell-Pym » Cosmogenic nuclides and Dating 2008

  • Rotation generates centrifugal forces, pulling the cloud's equators outwards, crushing the poles, until the out-bulging yet in-falling sphere, revolving ever faster around its center, flattens into a Frisbee.

    Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

  • Chad is about 3x the size of California countries near the equators are bigger than they appear on the maps.

    Taiwan's friends: One down, 24 to go? Sun Bin 2006

  • Chad is about 3x the size of California countries near the equators are bigger than they appear on the maps.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Sun Bin 2006

  • Beliefs are as real as equators, or centers of gravity, or the average American.

    Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

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