Definition of Equinoctial circle

1. Noun. The great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles.

Exact synonyms: Celestial Equator, Equinoctial, Equinoctial Line
Generic synonyms: Great Circle
Derivative terms: Equinoctial

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Literary usage of Equinoctial circle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... and which appear to be placed in the level (plane) of the equinoctial circle ; for by ... equinoctial circle ..."

2. William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and by William Gilbert, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Edward Wright (1893)
"THE equinoctial circle imagined by astronomers, which is equidistant from both poles and divides the earth in the middle, measures the movements of their ..."

3. Monumental Christianity: Or, The Art and Symbolism of the Primitive Church by John Patterson Lundy (1876)
"One of these is called the circle of the same, the other the circle of different, or the fixed and variable, or rather the equinoctial circle and the Zodiac ..."

4. The natural genesis by Gerald Massey (1883)
"One of these is called the circle of the Same, the other the circle of the Different, or the fixed and variable, or rather the equinoctial circle and the ..."

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