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equidiurnal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌiːkwɪdaɪˈɜː(ɹ)nəl/
  • /ˌɛkwɪdaɪˈɜː(ɹ)nəl/

Etymology

From equi- + diurnal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; applied to the equinoctial line.
    • The circle which the sun describes in his diurnal motion, when the days and nights are equal, the Greeks called the equidiurnal 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences: