equator

Example Sentences

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"Instead of even spreading, these slow-moving impacts would create a deposit rather than a crater. And they are centered on the equator as predicted from modeling material spun off the primary."

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The site's position close to the equator was more suitable for some missions than the Russian-operated spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Notice that this map stretches things out vertically near the equator and horizontally near the poles.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Given this was hundreds of millions of years ago, Scotland bore no resemblance to the land it is today, instead being located near the equator.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

The only numbers that escape are the ones that are equally distant from the two rivals—the numbers on the equator, like 1, –1, and i.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife