Usually means: Imaginary line encircling Earth horizontally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. equator, the equator: Merriam-Webster
  2. equator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. equator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. equator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. equator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Equator, equator: Wordnik
  7. equator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Equator, equator: Wiktionary
  9. equator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. equator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. equator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. equator: Dictionary.com
  13. equator: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. equator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EQUATOR (schooner), Equator (Randy Stonehill album), Equator (Stonehill album), Equator (TV series), Equator (Uriah Heep album), Equator (disambiguation), Equator (schooner), Equator, The Equator (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Equator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. equator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. equator: Rhymezone
  19. equator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. equator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. equator: FreeDictionary.org
  22. equator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. equator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. equator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Equator (astronomy), Equator (geography), equator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. equator: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Equator (geography), equator: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equator: Africa Glossary
  2. EQUATOR: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Equator: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Equator: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  5. EQUATOR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. equator: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Equator)

noun:  (geography, often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere.
noun:  (astronomy) A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on other reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
noun:  The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
noun:  The celestial equator.
noun:  (geography) Earth’s equator.

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