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[ɪˈkweɪtə], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a line notionally drawn on the earth equidistant from the poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
(e.g: the city sits almost on the equator)
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Origin
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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)
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