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Home Dictionary Name: equatorialEquatorial
Of or pertaining to the equator as equatorial climates also pertaining to an equatorial instrument...
Ellipticity
Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere especially in reference to the figure of the earth the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters divided by the equatorial thus the ellipticity of the earth is 129966...
Bantu
A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa These tribes include as important divisions the Kafirs Damaras Bechuanas and many tribes whose names begin with Aba Ama Ba Ma Wa variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba as in Ba ntu or Aba ntu itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable ntu a person or as in Watusi...
Equatorially
So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator...
Japan current
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific called also Kuro Siwo or Black Stream in allusion to the deep blue of its water It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream...
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