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Definition of September equinox
1. Noun. September 22.
Group relationships: Sep, Sept, September, Autumn, Fall
Generic synonyms: Equinox
Antonyms: Vernal Equinox
Lexicographical Neighbors of September Equinox
Literary usage of September equinox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"Such are the facts at the September equinox. A similar investigation in the case
of the March equinox shows in the same way no trace of change ten days ..."
2. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1855)
"... and continues to decrease until it becomes nothing at the September equinox.
The sun, therefore, continually moves from its position in March, ..."
3. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1855)
"... becomes nothing at the September equinox. The sun, therefore, continually
moves from its position in March, and crosses the meridian at points more and ..."
4. Pacific Educational Journal by California Dept. of Public Instruction (1894)
"equinox, and the axis of the planet again assumes the perpendicular to the sun's
rays, as it was in the September equinox. The circle of illumination again ..."
5. The Elements: An Investigation of the Forces which Determine the Position by William Leighton Jordan (1867)
"At the September equinox the solar tides are at the equator, and the annual tide
at its culminating point in the northern hemisphere; and immediately after ..."
6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1855)
"Such are the facts at the September equinox. ... Apparently the progress of the
change is somewhat more tardy in the March than in the September equinox. ..."
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