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▸ noun: (also figuratively) The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length.
▸ noun: (astronomy) One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth.
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▸ noun: (rare) A gale (“very strong wind”) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox (sense 1), now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale.
▸ noun: (astronomy) A celestial equator (“great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the Earth's equator (the equatorial plane)”); also, the Earth's equator.
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equinoctial point,
equinoxe,
March equinox,
autumnal equinox,
September equinox,
vernal equinox,
southward equinox,
northward equinox,
fall equinox,
spring equinox,
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burnt orange,
olive green,
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midnight blue,
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plum,
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