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equinox

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"Equal day-night point"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛkwɪnɒks/Part of speech nounSorted einoquxStarts with EEnds with X1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he Months of March and September, the tvvo Æquinoxes of Our year, are the moſt vvindy and tempeſtuous, the moſt unſettled and unequable of Seaſons in moſt Countries of the VVorld.
  • The four grand and ſolemn Bardic days are, of ancient uſage, the tvvo equinoxes, and the tvvo ſolſtices; the nevv and full moons are alſo, ſubordinately, ſolemn Bardic days: […]
  • [H]e [Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox; and, in his essay on Education, he doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.

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