equator• At the other end of the constellation is Beta, near Rigel and only 5 degreessouth of the celestialequator.• With what-all they're doing to this planet down at the equator, there's some weirdstuff happening up here.• And here at the equator, we noted, it was 85 degrees, with cloudlesssky and tropicalbreezes.• It is a calm, clear, beautiful day-the kind seen only at the equator.• The line on Mercury is fixed to its surface at the equator.• Born in the scaldingheat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.• The rest of the equator does not get quite as hot.• It would stretch round the equator 97 times or reach to the moon and back five times.
Originequator
(1300-1400)Medieval Latinaequator“equalizer”, from Latinaequare ( → EQUATE); because day and night are equal at the equator