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EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 720 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal) , in
geography
 , that
great
  circle of the earth, equidistant from the two poles, which divides the northern from the southern hemisphere and lies in a plane perpendicular to the
axis
  of the earth; this is termed the " geographical " or " terrestrial
equator
 ." In astronomy, the "
celestial
 
equator
  " is the name given to the
great
  circle in which the plane of the terrestrial equator intersects the
celestial
 
sphere
 ; it is consequently equidistant from the celestial poles. The " magnetic equator " is an imaginary
line
  encircling the earth, along which the
vertical
  component of the earth's magnetic force is zero; it nearly coincides with the terrestrial equator.


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