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Definition of Equinoctial point

1. Noun. (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Equinoctial Point

Literary usage of Equinoctial point

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: Including the Theory of by William Carpenter Pendleton Muir (1918)
"September 21, and is called the autumnal equinoctial point. Though now about 30° distant respectively from the constellations of Aries and Libra, ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"The latter, in the south of England, in Chaucer's time, would rise a few minutes before the autumnal equinoctial point, and might be called Libra Min al ..."

3. A System of Natural Philosophy: In which the Principles of Mechanics by John Lee Comstock (1840)
"»uu has arrived at the equinoctial point, amounts to 50 seconds of a degree, ... But it is found that when the earth comes to the same equinoctial point, ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: In Two Parts. The First Containing, a by John Gummere (1837)
"The time when the sun is at the equinoctial point, in his passage from the south to the north side of the equator, is called the Vernal Equinox ; and the ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"The earliest astronomers whose records have come down to us found the vernal equinoctial point in the constellation Aries, instead of in the constellation ..."

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