Equatorial is an English word with synonyms like circle or tropical. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Equatorial in a sentence
Equatorial meaning
- Of, near, or relating to the equator.
- Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.
- of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis
Synonyms of Equatorial
Using Equatorial
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, near, or relating to the equator. | Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object. | of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis
- Useful related words include: circle, great circle, pantropical, pantropic.
- In the example corpus, equatorial often appears in combinations such as: equatorial guinea, the equatorial, in equatorial.
Context around Equatorial
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Equatorial
- In this selection, "equatorial" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, counter, use, wednesday, guinea, currents and describes stand out and add context to how "equatorial" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adjoining east equatorial indian ocean and and counter equatorial currents. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "equatorial" sits close to words such as artistes, basel and casually, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with equatorial
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Surrounding ocean waters are warm, pushed by equatorial and counter-equatorial currents. (12 words)
It is designed to guide Belarus' cooperation with Equatorial Guinea through 2026. (12 words)
That’s why they’re the favourites in the Equatorial Guinea vs Tunisia odds. (14 words)
China’s President Xi Jinping, center, speaks as South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, left and Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo look on, during the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation. (33 words)
AEW 2023 will therefore serve as a platform for H.E. Ondo to strengthen relations between Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring countries while incentivizing new investment across the domestic energy value chain. (31 words)
With the monsoon rain band forecast remaining close to the equatorial region, short thundery showers can still be expected in the afternoon on most days over parts of Singapore, it added. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Surrounding ocean waters are warm, pushed by equatorial and counter-equatorial currents.
The equatorial describes the sky as seen from the solar system, and modern star maps almost exclusively use equatorial coordinates.
The equatorial system is the normal coordinate system for most professional and many amateur astronomers having an equatorial mount that follows the movement of the sky during the night.
AEW 2023 will therefore serve as a platform for H.E. Ondo to strengthen relations between Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring countries while incentivizing new investment across the domestic energy value chain.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, Equatorial Guinea edged past Namibia 1-0, courtesy of a close range finish from veteran striker, Emilio Nsue.
Equatorial Guinea, with its expertise as an oil and gas player, offers Namibia the knowledge and training that the country needs to develop a thriving domestic oil and gas industry.
In December 1977, a style of rule associated with medieval Europe was visited upon a hitherto obscure country tucked away deep in equatorial Africa.
In turn, partners from Equatorial Guinea have been invited to Minsk for the agro-industrial week to be held in May 2024.
It is designed to guide Belarus' cooperation with Equatorial Guinea through 2026.
That’s why they’re the favourites in the Equatorial Guinea vs Tunisia odds.
The announcement comes a month after Equatorial Guinea confirmed its own outbreak of Marburg, a first for the West African nation.
The country is transitioning out of a La Nina phase, which is characterized by a cooler than average equatorial Pacific temperature.
The parent low-pressure lay over South-East Bay of Bengal and the adjoining East Equatorial Indian Ocean on Saturday morning.
Two SA engineers imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea face political disputes, prompting concerns over government intervention.
With the monsoon rain band forecast remaining close to the equatorial region, short thundery showers can still be expected in the afternoon on most days over parts of Singapore, it added.
After a 1-1 draw with Libya, Equatorial Guinea played goalless with Burkina Faso, beat Namibia 1-0, edged Liberia 1-0 before a 1-1 draw with Djibouti.
Another benefit of the OneWeb constellation is that it provides much denser coverage for polar regions than traditional so-called geostationary (GEO) satellites, which favour the equatorial regions they orbit.
China’s President Xi Jinping, center, speaks as South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, left and Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo look on, during the Forum On China-Africa Cooperation.
Clemens Westerhof asked more questions in his comments shortly after Nigeria’s match with Equatorial Guinea on Sunday afternoon.
Coming in at number 10 is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who governs the small African nation of Equatorial Guinea.
Common combinations with equatorial
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- equatorial guinea 94×
- the equatorial 37×
- in equatorial 16×
- an equatorial 15×
- and equatorial 9×
- equatorial regions 8×
- with equatorial 7×
- of equatorial 7×
- equatorial plane 7×
- equatorial africa 6×