the equator
noun
: an imaginary circle around the middle of the Earth that is the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole
The city of Quito, Ecuador, lies very close to the equator.
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The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
The upper stage then carried out two firings of its single engine before releasing the 2,600-pound Sentinel-6B into an 830-mile-high orbit tilted 66 degrees to the equator, the same orbit used by Sentinel-6A and earlier sea level-monitoring spacecraft.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2025
On Mars, these ancient rhythms left behind the frozen scars now visible in regions like Coloe Fossae, which lies around 39 degrees north of the equator — well outside the polar regions where Martian ice is usually found.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
The upper stage then carried out two firings of its single engine before releasing the 2,600-pound Sentinel-6B into an 830-mile-high orbit tilted 66 degrees to the equator, the same orbit used by Sentinel-6A and earlier sea level-monitoring spacecraft.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Nov. 2025
On Mars, these ancient rhythms left behind the frozen scars now visible in regions like Coloe Fossae, which lies around 39 degrees north of the equator — well outside the polar regions where Martian ice is usually found.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
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“The equator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20equator. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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