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Definition of Autumnal equinox

1. Noun. September 22.

2. Noun. (astronomy) the equinoctial point that lies in the constellation of Virgo.

Definition of Autumnal equinox

1. Noun. the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward ¹

2. Noun. the point where the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator at that time ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autumnal Equinox

autoxidising autoxidize autoxidized autoxidizes autoxidizing autozygome autozygous autumn autumn crocus autumn equinox

autumn fever autumn pumpkin autumn sneezeweed autumn years autumnal autumnal equinox (current term) autumnally autumns autumntime autumny

autunite autunites aux auxano- auxanogram auxanograms auxanographic auxanographic method auxanography auxanology

Literary usage of Autumnal equinox

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

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"OTHER PLANTS WHICH REQUIRE TO BE SOWN AT THE autumnal equinox. There are some other plants, again, which require to be sown together at the time of the ..."

2. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"... which fell about the time of the autumnal equinox; and that of Zerubbabel was in their twelfth month, called Adar,1 which fell in the beginning of the ..."

3. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Position of the earth at autumnal equinox.—. Why the longest day is not the hottest.—162. Why the summer is warmer than the spring.—163. The Dog-days.—164. ..."

4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"The mean sine of the altitude of the sun in latitude 45° 30' N. the middle of the zone under consideration from the vernal to the autumnal equinox is ..."

5. The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Thomas Dick (1849)
"As the sun appears to move op from the vernal equinox to the summer solstice, the earth actually moves from the autumnal equinox down to the winter solstice ..."

6. Laboratory Astronomy by Robert Wheeler Willson (1905)
"THE autumnal equinox OF 1899 The following table gives the details of observations taken at the autumnal equinox of 1899 for the purpose of determining the ..."

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