Noun:

இரவும் பகலும் சம நேரமுடைய காலம்,

equinox's Usage Examples:

An instance is given, in L' Art de verifier les dates, of a date in which the year is reckoned from the 18th of March; but it is probable that this refers to the astronomical year, and that the 18th of March was taken for the day of the vernal equinox.

trepidare, to tremble), a term meaning, in general, fear or trembling, but used technically in astronomy for an imagined slow oscillation of the ecliptic, having a period of 7000 years, introduced by the Arabian astronomers to explain a supposed variation in the precession of the equinoxes.

In 1749 he furnished a method of applying his principles to the motion of any body of a given figure; and in 1754 he solved the problem of the precession of the equinoxes, determined its quantity and explained the phenomenon of the nutation of the earth's axis.

Each solstice is upon the ecliptic midway between the equinoxes, and therefore go from each.

Owing to the precession of the equinoxes it is longer than a tropical or sidereal year by 25 minutes and 2.

Violent winds are common at both equinoxes.

These seasons are governed by the apparent movements of the sun, the winters occurring at the equinoxes and the summers at the solstices.

Barrere (France equinoxiale, p.

The Balance, obviously indicating the equality of day and night, is first mentioned as the sign of the Libra autumnal equinox by Geminus and Varro, and °b and tained, through Sosigenes of Alexandria, official re Scorpio.

 Before the departure of the Israelites from Egypt their year commenced at the autumnal equinox; but in order to solemnize the memory of their deliverance, the month of Nisan or Abib, in which that event took place, and which falls about the time of the vernal equinox, was afterwards regarded as the beginning of the ecclesiastical or legal year.

14) blows about the equinox, and occasionally, in the winter months, with almost hurricane force for three days together; it is recorded to have caused the drowning of 600 persons in the harbour in 1555.

Synonyms:

equinoctial point, autumnal equinox, celestial point, vernal equinox,

Antonyms:

point of periapsis, point of apoapsis, apex, nadir, antapex,