Equinox definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary E'QUINOX, n. [L. oequus ... which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic [syn: equinoctial point, equinox] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ... are of equal length all over the earth. The vernal equinox, when spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere, occurs about March ... the sun moves north across the celestial equator. The autumnal equinox falls about September 23, as the sun crosses the celestial equator going south. The term equinox also refers to either of two points in the sky ... length. 2 = equinoctial point. Phrases and idioms: autumn (or autumnal) equinox about 22 Sept. spring (or vernal) equinox about 20 ...
vernal equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: March 21 [syn: vernal equinox, March equinox, spring equinox] [ant: September equinox, autumnal equinox, fall equinox] 2: (astronomy) the equinoctial point that lies ...
autumnal equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: September 22 [syn: autumnal equinox, September equinox, fall equinox] [ant: March equinox, spring equinox, vernal equinox] 2: (astronomy) the equinoctial point that lies ...
September equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: September 22 [syn: autumnal equinox, September equinox, fall equinox] [ant: March equinox, spring equinox, vernal equinox]
spring equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: March 21 [syn: vernal equinox, March equinox, spring equinox] [ant: September equinox, autumnal equinox, fall equinox]
fall equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: September 22 [syn: autumnal equinox, September equinox, fall equinox] [ant: March equinox, spring equinox, vernal equinox]
March equinox definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: March 21 [syn: vernal equinox, March equinox, spring equinox] [ant: September equinox, autumnal equinox, fall equinox]
... equinoctial gale or storm, which happens at or near the equinox, in any part of the world. 4. Equinoctial flowers, flowers ... first point of Aries, is called the vernal point or equinox; the other, in the first point of Libra, the autumnal point or equinox. Equinoctial dial, is that whose plane lies parallel to the ... to the vicinity of the equator 2: relating to an equinox (when the lengths of night and day are equal) n ... Webster's I. adjective Date: 1545 1. relating to an equinox or to a state or the time of equal day ... adj. 1 happening at or near the time of an equinox (equinoctial gales). 2 of or relating to equal day ...
... of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn; "the autumnal equinox"; "autumnal fruits" [ant: summery, vernal, wintery, wintry] 2: characteristic of ... appropriate to autumn (autumnal colours). 2 occurring in autumn (autumnal equinox). 3 maturing or blooming in autumn. 4 past the prime ... life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. --Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it ... and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary 1. Autumnal means ... trees... ADJ 2. Autumnal means happening in autumn. ...the autumnal equinox. ADJ
... solstice about the 21st of December, and ends at the equinox in March; but in ordinary discourse, the three winter months ... hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox [syn: winter, wintertime] v 1: spend the winter; "We wintered ... reckoned astronomically extending from the December solstice to the March equinox 2. the colder half of the year 3. year < happened ... Astron. the period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox. 3 a bleak or lifeless period or region etc. (nuclear ... solstice, about December 21st, and to end with the vernal equinox, about March 21st. 2. The period of decay, old age ...
... signs in which the sun appears in the spring. Vernal equinox, the equinox in spring or March; opposed to the autumnal equnox, in ... of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal equinox" [ant: autumnal, summery, wintery, wintry] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology ... 1. of, relating to, or occurring in the spring < vernal equinox > < vernal sunshine > 2. fresh or new like the spring; also ... Reference Dictionary adj. of, in, or appropriate to spring (vernal equinox; vernal breezes). Phrases and idioms: vernal grass a sweet-scented ...
... Equinoctial E`qui*noc"tial, a. [L. aequinoctials, fr. aequinoctium equinox: cf. F. ['e]quinoxial. See Equinox.] 1. Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day ... is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the ...
... Equinoctial E`qui*noc"tial, a. [L. aequinoctials, fr. aequinoctium equinox: cf. F. ['e]quinoxial. See Equinox.] 1. Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to the time of equal day ... is, one happening at or near the time of the equinox, in any part of the world. Equinoctial colure (Astron.), the ...
... season between summer and winter. Astronomically, it begins at the equinox, when the sun enters libra, and ends at the winter ... and November or as reckoned astronomically extending from the September equinox to the December solstice — called also fall 2. a period ... March to May. 2 Astron. the period from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice. 3 a time of maturity or ... it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about ...
... or never used. 2. In astronomy, the precession of the equinox, is an annual motion of the equinox, or point when the ecliptic intersects the equator, to the ... long before. At that time, the point of the autumnal equinox was about six degrees to the eastward of the star ... in connection with its diurnal rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing to its westerly motion, comes to the meridian sooner ...