équateur

See also: Equateur, Équateur, and Êquateur

French

Alternative forms

æquateur (obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aequātōrem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.kwa.tœʁ/
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Noun

équateur m (plural équateurs)

equator (imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere)
Coordinate term: tropique

Derived terms

équatorial

Further reading

“équateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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