equator

equator is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
2. noun. The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line.
3. noun. an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles

   "the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres"

4. noun. a circle dividing a sphere or other surface into two usually equal and symmetrical parts

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in equator:

quorate

Common word forms

equators

Words from these letters

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