Usually means: Equal day and night duration.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. equinox: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. equinox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. equinox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. equinox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. equinox: Vocabulary.com
  6. Equinox, equinox: Wordnik
  7. equinox: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. equinox: Wiktionary
  9. equinox: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. equinox: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. equinox: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. equinox: Dictionary.com
  13. equinox: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. equinox: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Equinox: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. equinox: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. equinox: Rhymezone
  19. Equinox: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. equinox: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. equinox: Free Dictionary
  22. equinox: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. equinox: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. equinox: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Equinox: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. equinox: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Equinox: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  3. Equinox: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Equinox: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  6. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  7. EQUINOX: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.
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.
noun:  (obsolete)
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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