Synonyms for equatorial
ˌi kwəˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌɛk wə-equa·to·ri·al

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1. equatorialadjective

   a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it

   Antonyms:
   polar, north-polar, south-polar, circumpolar, Arctic, Antarctic

2. equatorialadjective

   of or relating to or at an equator

   "equatorial diameter"

   Antonyms:
   polar, circumpolar, Arctic, Antarctic, south-polar, north-polar

3. equatorialadjective

   of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator

   "equatorial heat"

   Antonyms:
   north-polar, south-polar, Arctic, circumpolar, polar, Antarctic

4. equatorialadjective

   of or existing at or near the geographic equator

   "equatorial Africa"

   Antonyms:
   north-polar, south-polar, Antarctic, Arctic, polar, circumpolar

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1. List of paraphrases for "equatorial":

   equateur, tropical, equatoria, guinea, equator, equatoriale

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1. Robert Mathurin Bidjang:

   On the 13th of February, we had two suspected cases. These are two 16-year-old children, a boy and a girl, who have no previous travel history to the affected areas in Equatorial Guinea.

2. Pascal Lee:

   The desire to land humans at a location where they might be able to extract water ice from the ground has been pushing mission planners to consider higher latitude sites, but the latter environments are typically colder and more challenging for humans and robots. If there were equatorial locations where ice might be found at shallow depth, then we’d have the best of both environments: warmer conditions for human exploration and still access to ice.

3. Cheng Li:

   We found the water in the equator to be greater than what the Galileo probe measured, because the equatorial region is very unique at Jupiter, we need to compare these results with how much water is in other regions.

4. Dante Lauretta:

   Everything was self-consistent and suggested a lot of centimeter-scale particles, probably concentrated in the equator, and I was really envisioning kind of a beach that went all the way around the asteroid in equatorial regions.

5. Jennifer Powers:

   Going from a less equatorial altitude to a much more equatorial altitude quickly over a couple days doesn’t allow your body to habituate to the stress and that’s the kind of quick, abrupt shift we associate more with melanoma than with other skin cancer.