(also figuratively) The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.
(astronomy) A celestial equator (“great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the Earth's equator (the equatorial plane)”); also, the Earth's equator.
(astronomy) One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.
(rare) A gale (“very strong wind”) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox (sense 1), now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale.
One of the two occasions in the year when the length of the day and night are equal, which occurs when the apparent path of the Sun (the ecliptic) intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth; this happens on a day between March 19 and 21 (spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere), and on another day between September 21 and 24 (autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern Hemisphere); hence, the exact time when the intersection occurs.
exuding
exuding
noun
The process by which something exudes.
verb
present participle of exude
ulexine
ulexine
noun
(obsolete, organic chemistry) The alkaloid cytisine when extracted from gorse (of genus Ulex).
unfixed
unfixed
adj
(of a problem) Not fixed; not corrected.
Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely
Not fraudulently prearranged.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unfix
unfixes
unfixes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unfix
