Equatorial

Language: English
Pronunciation: equat-ori-al
Part of Speech: adjective

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A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.

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"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"

"of or relating to or at an equator"

"of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator"

"of or existing at or near the geographic equator"

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