équateur
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin aequātōrem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]équateur m (plural équateurs)
- equator (imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere)
- Coordinate term: tropique
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “équateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.